Wall Street had, of course, caused millions of foreclosures and created vast human suffering by throwing the global economy into the most severe economic calamity since the Great Depression.
This was the most severe nature-related calamity that the world's largest oil exporter has seen in the past 50 years but the real reason for the death and destruction that occurred last Wednesday is endemic corruption in the Saudi government.
A second editorial, published in the state-run Global Times tabloid, said: "The decade of calamity caused severe damage, leaving permanent pain for many Chinese.
Swift government intervention reduced the calamity to a severe recession but did not erase the unaffordable home loans or retroactively create an easily followed mortgage paper trail.
If scientific predictions about global warming's effects are correct, inaction will lead at best to rising social, economic and environmental disruption, at worst to a calamity far more severe.
And this impending calamity will be more severe and more overwhelming than Sandy.
It is a damning indictment and a severe dereliction of duty that such a calamity as a no-deal Brexit is a possibility, no matter how unlikely.
On Feb. 11, a month after the L'Enfant Plaza calamity, a similar but less severe incident occurred in Virginia, starting at 1 29 p.m.
Clinical trials on camptothecin sodium for cancers in the 1970s were dropped due to its severe nephrotoxicity 86, 87, and a main calamity of cisplatin is also nephrotoxicity 88.
Over the past year, a series of calamities or, at the least, surprisingly severe weather, has dominated the news for weeks at a time.
Under such a Ryan-Romney approach, big risks – such as severe ill health and the danger of other calamities – would be shifted from society to individuals.
