Reinsurance rates are under pressure after two catastrophe-free years.The insurer's biggest division, global markets, suffered a 23% fall in gross written premiums to £344m in the first half, but this was offset by sharply higher premiums and profits at its regional businesses.
Then, two catastrophes strike.
If we want to save Africa from two catastrophes, we would do well to focus on saving Africa's women.
"Two catastrophes coincided: in the social sphere, the socialist Atlantis was sinking; and on the cosmic – there was Chernobyl".
ANY election in Sri Lanka this year was bound to be in part a referendum on the government's handling of two catastrophes.
In Prague, she told a crowd of about a thousand people in Churchill Square that Churchill had prophesied "the two catastrophes that overwhelmed your country... Nazism and communism.
The two catastrophes of the space shuttle program — in 1986 and 2003, which killed 14 astronauts — had more to do with design flaws and management failures than with depleted ranks of experts.
Jackson, a professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, explains in an afterword that he discovered the story of the Paris flood not long before Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, and parallels between the two catastrophes are apparent throughout the book.
The disappearance of wetlands has been a problem in Louisiana for decades, and it has been highlighted in recent years by two catastrophes: Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Mallon, a veteran of political fiction, has written a blackly comic novel set during George W. Bush's tenure as the administration grappled with two catastrophes: Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war.
The famous "Silence = Death" poster, designed in 1986 to demand that attention be paid and action taken against AIDS, claimed that shape and inverted it, drawing a parallel between the two catastrophes while positing the triangle as a symbol of pride and defiance.
