Sentences with phrase «possible effects of disasters»

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A partial but not complete list of worries includes: China melt down, Yuan reevaluation after effects or Taiwan action, global biomedical epidemics, e.g. Avian Flu, or bioterrorism outbreaks, trade wars (China, EU), major hedge fund bankruptcies, a PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.) shortfall crisis, major junk bond or emerging market bond default, a bank derivative blowup, Fannie Mae issues plus possible assorted natural disasters.

The procedure developed also enables evaluation of the various effects of a range of possible hypothetical infrastructure destruction scenarios even before a disaster strikes a region - this was shown to be crucial in formulating contingency plans for the logistics of disaster response and relief operations.

If after five years of filtered sunlight a disaster occurred — a drought in India and Pakistan, for example, a possible effect in one of the modeling studies — we would not know whether it was caused by global warming, the solar filter or natural variability.

The disasters we have seen in the last couple of years show the effects of concentrating on possible problems.

It was not a disaster for those in support of limiting the actual and apparent corrupting effects of money (and judges» direct solicitation of that money from the lawyers and parties likely to appear before them), but perhaps the best possible outcomes would be either a 5 - 4 decision upholding the Canon or a narrow decision essentially carving out a First - Amendment - driven, mass - mailing - like exception to the Canon.