It also calls for more robust security measures after a disaster.
Exxon's cost cutting measures insured a disaster; laid off spill responders; not fixing the disabled Raycas radar; the containment boom barge iced into dry-dock.
In 2013, Andrew Yates, the founder of software company Artesian Solutions, described the measure as a disaster.
Christine Milne's decision to play politics on this measure is a disaster for the Greens, reducing them to the same level as the major parties.
After a month of BP's underestimation of the scope of the spill ("The Measure of a Disaster," by Ian R. MacDonald, John Amos, Timothy Crone and Steve Wereley, Op-Ed, May 22), Mr. Obama finally set up a commission to investigate what went wrong.
Military spending accounts for 25% of gross domestic product, one reason the other 22 million North Koreans remain hungry and trapped in an economy that by any measure is a disaster.
The stakes are too high to implement these measures only after a disaster is already upon us.
Music critic Steve McPherson noted that its first two measures sound "like a disaster", contrasting its solid groove.
But Mr. Tauzin, who is not bound by the leaders' agreement with Mrs. Emerson, said he was pressing lawmakers to vote against the measure, calling it "a disaster to the health and safety of Americans".
Together, they are responsible for development schemes and austerity measures that have been a disaster for much of the world.
