Another client, overheard at one of the coffee tables that had been set up under a canopy outside the gallery, had suffered a disaster: her luggage had been lost en route to Portofino.
But although the razor wasn't crucial for the second team, it was for the first, and they still mattered: if they'd suffered a disaster because their masks didn't fit, or failed to prepare the way for Tenzing and Hilary, the outcome of 1953 might have been quite different.
The women qualified on Saturday but the men, expected to easily match them, suffered a disaster on the high bar and did not recover, finishing 10th. Louis Smith made the pommel horse final but cannot qualify for the Olympics this week even if he wins a medal.
It was opened as Ibrox Park in 1899, but suffered a disaster in 1902 when a wooden terrace collapsed.
"Another important step is to put measures into place to reunify families as fast as possible, so as to reduce further harm to children who have suffered a disaster," Salazar added.
IF THERE is one country in the Americas that cannot afford to suffer a natural disaster, it is dirt-poor and politically fragile Haiti.
There are a variety of reasons -- climatological, physical, sociological -- why experts say it is unlikely that New Jersey would suffer a New Orleans-like disaster.
"All of this at the end will be in Islam's favor — even if Islam and its people suffer a great disaster — because the two aggressive powers will be consumed in the war," wrote Sheik Hamid al-Ali, a religious leader in Kuwait who has stood trial there for ties to radical groups.
And research by those three CFR scholars found that poor autocracies were at least twice as likely as democracies to suffer an economic disaster (defined as a decline of 10% or more in GDP in a year).
That's how Japan can suffer a catastrophic natural disaster and some people can conclude it's because of Pearl Harbour.
