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Disasters

(dreams)

Dreaming about natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, is not that uncommon. People usually have these dreams at a time of many changes in their lives. Most people have ambivalent feelings about change and some resist even positive changes. Therefore, quick shifts in life style or some type of crisis may bring about dreams of natural disasters. Please look up specific disasters by name.

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And it's hard to defend the position that 8 percent unemployment is disastrously high.

Why economists are part of the problem

And when the fight was won in both countries, both were hailed as international statesmen who talked of peace and co-operation Then one man got it right and the other got it disastrously wrong.

A Zim view of Mugabe

Bush, a man who has taken the positions of an unshakable ideologue: on supply-side economics, on privatization, on Social Security, on the Terri Schiavo case, and, most disastrously, on Iraq.

Ideologie has taken over

A 20-YEAR-OLD man who suffered serious effects in a drugs trial that went disastrously wrong says he will lose his fingers and toes.

Drug trial victim to lose fingers

Nationally, there has been an alarming trend for the cutting of arts programs from public schools, which disastrously affects working-class students whose families cannot afford private lessons.

Rants & Raves: how can dance education compete with the power of the media?

The tragic fire that killed more than 90 school children in India this summer spread disastrously quick because of the school's thatched roof.

Lessons from the India school fire

France will have bad memories of the last World Cup when they flopped disastrously and that is sure to be on their mind as they limber up in Lisbon.

Football: Euro 2004: England v France: Nothing to fear; England's lions have the courage to match the flashy French

This doesn't work out very well, in fact disastrously, so the mother leaves Rose and the next oldest daughter behind and returns to Ireland to be reunited with her husband and baby.

Auch, Mary Jane. Ashes of Roses

And Bellabarba makes a strong case for seeing it as the first of a series of highly damaging scandals associating the court with popery and plotting, which continued under James and would culminate disastrously in the Popish Plot rumors of 1638-41.

The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660

At the same time, the nineteenth-century fabric of European industrial cities has been renovated (often well, but sometimes disastrously).

City shifts: cities are continually in flux, but recent changes in the prosperity of many industrial nineteenth-century ones offer exciting possibilities for generous architecture and urbanism

By definition, green sets itself against the grain of a consumer culture that refuses to acknowledge that its continuing expansion may well be checked, disastrously, by ever-dwindling natural resources.

Conserving habitats: Kevin Pratt on green design

Those reporting programs, insurers say, are costly, cumbersome, and--owing to data mismatches between insurers and motor vehicle departments--sometimes disastrously inaccurate.