Sentences with phrase «of small disasters»

New York law also does not have any significant provisions to aid victims of small disasters like apartment fires.

If you happen to leave the stove on, if you fall asleep with a candle burning, if a pipe bursts in your condo - all of these small disasters can cause irreplaceable damage to your belongings, including any carpeting, rugs, furniture and electronics.

New York law also does not have any significant provisions to aid victims of small disasters like apartment fires.

One ignored task, if left long enough, can lead to a series of small disasters that all culminate into a tidal wave of upset authors, frustrated reviewers, and a very sheepish managing editor.

Not exact matches

After Hurricane Henry (Texas) and Hurricane Irma (Florida) devastated parts of those states this fall, SBA Disaster Loans helped get small business owners get back up and running.

Secondly, if your small businesses or nonprofit is located in a declared disaster area and you have lost money as a result of a disaster — even if you did not sustain physical damage — you could be eligible for an Economic Injury Disastdisaster area and you have lost money as a result of a disaster — even if you did not sustain physical damage — you could be eligible for an Economic Injury Disastdisaster — even if you did not sustain physical damage — you could be eligible for an Economic Injury DisasterDisaster Loan.

Stratollite can fly commercial payloads the size of a small bus to 150,000 feet of altitude, making it possible to quickly and steadily provide services such as weather forecasting, military surveillance or disaster recovery.

According to a 2010 survey by Travelers Insurance, 94 percent of small - business owners are confident their business is protected against insurable risks, despite only 56 percent having disaster - recovery insurance.

Experts say courts get bogged down with those kinds of lawsuits, and that spells disaster for small companies.

Early on, Preston spent much of his time righting the ship of disaster aid, but now he's focusing more on the small business in the SBA.

And many, like Memphis Pig Out, are still making a comeback, despite $ 60 billion in aid from the federal government and $ 2.4 billion worth of disaster recovery loans from the Small Business Administration.

According to a 2013 survey, 74 percent of small businesses did not have a disaster recovery plan.

Most large companies already have business continuity plans in case of disaster, but smaller businesses may not have the resources to thoroughly prepare on their own, says Freitag.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

The purpose of the disaster film is not to make small conflicts bigger but to make big ones smaller - to reduce unthinkable catastrophes to a human scale.

«After Hurricane Harvey, it became apparent that we needed to create a more comprehensive and formalized disaster recovery plan suitable for a small business — not a typical cookie - cutter disaster plan,» Nick Bednorz, CEO of Comensure in Houston, said via email.

One of the hard lessons many small businesses are learning after the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is that a disaster plan is essential — even if you think you'll never need to use it.

In charge of the No. 209 on the Inc. 500 list this year, Qoncert regularly counsels other small business owners on disaster recovery plans — and also follows his own advice.

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), almost 40 percent of small businesses never reopen their doors after a disaster.

The other, while immune to small shocks, is forever at risk of a disaster.

The Small Business Pipeline, a technology - related Web site and newsletter, found that nearly three - quarters of the 237 SMBs it surveyed in April 2004 had no written disaster - response strategies.

Rather than one big mistake, the disaster likely was the result of numerous small decisions that caused normality to shift and that ultimately caused a fatal explosion.

James Rivera, Office of Disaster Relief at the Small Business Administration, discusses the impact of Hurricane Irma on small businesses in FloSmall Business Administration, discusses the impact of Hurricane Irma on small businesses in Flosmall businesses in Florida.

As Hurricane Sandy bears down on Atlantic City, New York, and (eventually) parts of eastern Canada, thousands of businesses large and small are faced with dilemmas related to doing business before, during, and after a potential state of disaster.

Forty to 60 percent of small businesses never reopen after a disaster.

On Wednesday March 24, the small rural town of Moora was declared a disaster area.

Small down payments, rosy occupancy assumptions, and cheerful average rent projections have a habit of combining to form a trifecta of fiscal disaster for the unwary speculator who mistakenly believes he is acting like an investor.

Depending on the location of a business, disasters can mean different things, but ultimately, all disasters can cause significant disruptions in productivity for a small to medium - sized business.

On September 18, 2017, the worst natural disaster in the history of Dominica ravaged this small island nation.

Federal agencies can also skip open bidding on larger contracts — those above $ 750,000 in disaster zones — if they can show that there's only a small number of vendors who can provide the service or product they need, or to extend a current contract, known as a «follow - on deal.»

By the middle of March, there were 715 households in FEMA - funded hotels and 3,749 Small Business Administration low - interest disaster loans - the majority granted to homeowners and renters.

When Nationwide surveyed small - business owners back in 2015 regarding the subject of disasters, the results were disheartening — 38 percent said that disaster recovery plans were not essential for their business, and only 18 percent of small businesses with 50 employees or less had a disaster recovery plan in place.

The reasons are not obvious, and it takes a bit of understanding of the nature of business, mixed with a dash of technological know - how and a small pinch of economics to fully understand how a mere 10.1 % decline in miner commitment could spell disaster for Segwit2x.

Eighty - eight of those small satellites were the property of Planet; with these eyes on the sky, along with the 50 they already had in orbit, the company promises its customers high - resolution images of the Earth for everything from crop yield monitoring to aiding first responders with real - time images of natural disasters.

While both the Oakmark International and International Small Cap Funds had acceptable investment performance in the fourth quarter of 2011, the full year was not good for global equities or for our two Funds, as natural disasters (first in Japan, later in Thailand) and Europe's sovereign debt crisis took their toll.

The British had forseen these events and had setup a small encampment to assist the Kurds, but they were unprepared to the scale of the disaster.

Thinking of Michal Williams, sitting alone in the apartment, and reading these poems, I suddenly thought of another twentieth - century disaster - marriage, that of the great painter Stanley Spencer, whose visions of Christianity led him to paint the general resurrection in the small - town churchyard of Cookham, and whose Christ was a working - class Englishman of 1930s vintage.

In a statement, the Vatican said: «The donation, which is intended to show the pope's solidarity and spiritual closeness to those affected by the disaster, is a small part of the financial support being sent to Mexico through many bishops conferences and Caritas organisations.»

Thus, if you neglect these small incremental matters of behavioral deficit and minor excess, you may in time be lured into larger self - deceptions and collusions that will spell disaster.

A number of recent sociological and psychological studies seem to support Jacob Epstein's assertion in his book Divorced in America that «in divorce there are only smaller and larger disasters.»

The Pentagon alone has made 3,500 loans and subsidies to shore up small firms on the verge of disaster.

People speak of «small» and «large» disasters.

With the ANC government impassive in the face of this humanitarian disaster, the work of caring for Zimbabwean refugees has fallen to the region's churches, which have used whatever piteously small resources they have to see that these people do not literally die on the streets.

While I can't erase the small part of me that wants to create brilliant, impressive desserts, I want to avoid disaster, disappointment, and rushing to the grocery store to grab more ingredients an hour before the event takes place (no one needs that kind of stress).

In fact agro-ecological interventions significantly decrease the vulnerability of small farmers to natural disasters and other disturbances.

He would still have a small heart for a finesse of dummy's 10, but the extra club ruff in the South hand would have averted disaster: when East gained the lead with the heart king he would not have another club to return.

Obviously one game is a small sample size and all sorts of disasters could await on the horizon but there is hope that us Suns fans could have found respite from the harsh desert of suckitude and can finally enjoy a midnight at the oasis.

«I believe the point of my boxing career was preparation for my small role in this disaster,» he says.

Only a relatively small number of infants under six months affected by this disaster — estimated to number around 6 600 — are not breastfed at all.

A 1 in 1000 probability of disaster is not small, and it's definitely worth planning for.