It revolves around tedious shouting matches, unlikely romances, clunky murder mysteries and periodic disasters that result in several characters being marooned in the bush.
Among the many errors and periodic disasters of post-war policy in Iraq, that one - the most damaging of any course we might take - has been avoided.
And periodic disasters — like Hurricane Katrina and the Interstate 35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis — have continued to remind us that we should not be neglecting these investments.
It may be that investors accept periodic disasters as a price worth paying for the innovations of modern finance, but now is probably not the best time to ask them about it.
But he came up with what might be the most successful liberal idea of the past century: that central governments, through spending, taxes, and manipulating interest rates, could prevent the periodic economic disasters that had characterized modern capitalism.
A few years ago, herding in Central province, he lost many of his sheep to a dzud, one of the periodic climatic disasters that hit Mongolia a summer drought that results in too little pasture and too little hay for the winter, followed by heavy winter snow and colder-than-usual temperatures.
Just so you know that these periodic financial disasters are not accidents, let's take a look at some history before examining today's situation.
The greatest dangers, however, remain below ground... the periodic mining disasters.
The excellent vertebrate fossil record of Two Medicine and Judith River rocks resulted from a combination of abundant animal life, periodic natural disasters, and the deposition of large amounts of sediment.
Before 1972, Social Security wasn't indexed at all, and there was little public talk about tying it to inflation despite periodic, inflation-induced disasters for retirees.
