Sentences with phrase «first near disaster»
NASA's first orbital triumph was also its first near disaster.
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We spent the first five years of our business in a constant state of anxiety, culminating in a near - disaster; in 1989 our bank kicked us out and we lost our line of credit.
Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the June 3 disaster at the GOIL station near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle.
First, many academic labs sorely need «recommendations and guidance» — and more — in order to work safely, as shown by this horrifying litany of disasters and near - disasters recounted on Reddit by scientists and students.
The first human mission to Mars meets with near - disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it.
Okay, so no one emerged from this reputation - ruining «comedy» disaster with any dignity, but Al should never have gone near it in the first place.
When you self - publish, you learn to write to market, you learn about blurbs and pitches and hooks and all sorts of neat marketing stuff, and at first, I thought that if my books «didn't make it», it would be a disaster, that I too (because of them) would never make it as a writer, that no agent or publisher would ever want to get near me.
In the meantime, prudence suggests that we concentrate on the ongoing disaster of global energy poverty first as it is a certain disaster that is happening now and forces 1/3 of the world's population to live in near prehistoric levels of poverty and misery.
But his parents» near - divorce had left its mark, and, moving to Indiana University, he set up his first official lab, to observe and study «the masters and disasters of love.»