Not exact matches
Society's «longevity risk,» as financial planners call it, has been a slow - developing crisis, more a rising tide
than a sudden
storm, so top investment minds have had some
time to prepare for it.
At the center of the study is a new map of the hazards posed by geomagnetic
storms of a strength that scientists expect to occur every 100 years — five
times more frequently
than «500 - year»
storms like the Carrington Event.
That unit topped the roughly 34,000 rounds fired in support of the invasion of Iraq, and it fired a little over half of the more
than 60,000 rounds fired by the over 730 howitzers the Army and Marines used to support Operation Desert
Storm, according to historical records seen by Marine Corps
Times.
When it comes to preparing for the long term, women face a «perfect
storm» financially: They are paid less
than men are on average, typically have more gaps in employment, engage in more part -
time employment and are often more risk - averse investors.
(A New York
Times analysis of the same data from Puerto Rico's Vital Statistics System also found that in the 42 days after the
storm hit, 1,052 more people
than usual died across the island.)
Monday afternoon, when asked during a press conference if he had
timed his pardon of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Friday evening so that
storm news might push it under the radar, Trump replied that he «assumed the ratings would be far higher
than they would be normally» on Friday as the
storm was about to hit the Texas coast.
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Dust
storms, scorching temperatures and lengthy delivery
times have put the Pentagon's new drone base in the Sahara in Niger more
than a year behind schedule and $ 22 million over its original budget.
And shall not memory be able to remind him of that
time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that
time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that
time that he deserted his post, in order to let the
storm pass over; of that
time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that
time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult
than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»
It is these little nuances with life that points to something that science and atheist can not fully explain no more
than the Pastor of the local church, after a
storm, looks upon his town and has to field questions of «why my house» while at the same
time having to field «Thank the Lord my house was spared.»
During the height of the
storm, he said, average response
times were as long as 55 minutes, a result in large part of unplowed streets causing more
than 100 ambulances to get stuck in snow
«Gov. Cuomo will spend more
time traveling to the Virgin Islands
than he will surveying the damage from the
storm, and this will all be funded by New York's taxpayers.
The
storm set a near - record in NYC, with more
than 26 inches of snow recorded at Central Park, which broke the all -
time daily snowfall record set in 2006.
In a conference call with the National Weather Service, the county executive said he was «disappointed» to hear that the
storm may last through Friday and some areas could see more
than six feet of snow by the
time it's over.
Field studies in southeastern Morocco, just a few kilometers away from the site of this dust
storm, show that electric fields generated by blowing sand boost dust emissions up to 10
times more
than expected from wind alone.
The solar
storms alone could zap the planet with radiation bursts thousands of
times more intense
than the normal activity from our Sun.
Waves on Midway during a normal high - end winter
storm are also expected to be three to four
times higher
than they are today, due to the combination of deepwater wave energy and wind - driven waves.
According to lightning records,
storms that had absorbed the smoke zapped the ground with three
times the usual number of positively charged lightning strokes, which typically last longer
than negatively charged ones and can inflict worse damage.
The
storm's power, he said, «was 50
times greater
than all of the power put out by all of the stars in the universe put together.»
The
storm is a monster: 5,000 miles across — big enough to engulf North America — and rising 45 miles above the eye, five
times higher
than any terrestrial
storm, with a top wind speed of 350 miles per hour, faster
than the most violent twister ever to plow through Tornado Alley.
More
than 85 percent of those happened during a
time when there were no
storms or lightning, meaning that most of the fires originated from human activities.
They discovered that the giant wave removed three to five
times more sand
than any historical El Niño
storm across the Pacific Coast of the United States.
Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three
times more likely
than a
storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.
Major
storms, which may be hitting the U.S. east coast with more regularity and force
than ever before, could cause dramatic losses if they hit at the wrong place at the wrong
time.
In contrast, phased - array radar sends out multiple beams simultaneously, eliminating the need to tilt the antennas, decreasing the
time between scans of
storms to less
than a minute.
Storms also holds the Guinness record for widest range, a full 10 octaves — about twice that of Mariah Carey and more
than three
times the average singer's range of just three octaves.
Nearly four
times larger
than the state of Texas, the swirling cyclonic system, seen in two sets of Hubble Space Telescope images released today, dwarfs any
storm previously observed on Mars.
When it comes to flash flooding, the amount of rain that falls over a period of
time is much more important
than the total volume of rainfall that a given
storm delivers.
Solar
storms trigger Jupiter's intense «Northern Lights» by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight
times brighter
than normal and hundreds of
times more energetic
than Earth's aurora borealis, finds new UCL - led research using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
«The influence of rising oceans is even greater
than the overall amount of sea level rise because of
storm surge, erosion and inundation,» said Carlson, who studies the interaction of ice sheets, oceans and the climate system on centennial
time scales.
In April, the American Geophysical Union released a study finding that the chance of
storm - pushed water topping the Manhattan seawall is 20
times greater
than 170 years ago, because of tide increases on top of sea - level rise.
And while Martian winds can kick up sky - blotting dust
storms like those that plagued the Spirit and Opportunity rovers this summer, the atmosphere of Mars is 100
times less dense
than that of Earth.
Known as «superflares,» the space weather events were thought to be roughly 10
times more powerful
than any solar
storm that has struck Earth since the advent of modern civilization.
For example, Wehner believes that simulated
storms can run 300x to 10,000 x faster
than real
time [ii].
The Dubai case was particularly astounding to the researchers given that the models suggested even a moderate - intensity
storm could generate an extremely high surge, and that under the right circumstances, a strong
storm could reach intensities far greater
than even the most intense
storm on record with a surge up to 23 feet (though these would be 3 to 20
times rarer
than a 10,000 - year
storm).
Four years ago the Kepler Space Telescope discovered an entirely new breed of solar activity — a class of solar
storms known as superflares, that are believed to be on average 10,000
times more powerful
than the Carrington Event of 1859.
Perhaps none is more astounding
than a prediction of super
storms, this century, greater
than anything seen in human
times.
Now, scientists from St. Andrews University in Scotland said the signal may have come from the planet's extreme weather, mainly from its huge lightning
storms millions of
times more powerful
than what we have on Earth, as per The National.
She's a Twitter fiend, is great with emails, is starting her own fashion - inspired online magazine and has taken the blogging world by
storm in less
than a year's
time.
Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep
than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same
time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger
than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante Cast: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox, Kari Wuhrer, Mark McGrath, Judd Hirsch Plot: On a trip to New York, Finn (Ziering) and Alice (Reid) end up encountering an even bigger
storm than last
time.
Their interference is omnipresent and oppressive; their rock - hard monkeying a million
times more visible
than Sue
Storm.
The «Battlefield» series has
stormed through more
than a century of warmaking in search of a good
time — World War II, Vietnam, the Iraq War, and even a couple of trips into the near - and not - so - near future.
My Kindle's NY
Times subscription was one of my main sources for detailed news and updated information after the
storm, but it was also apparent that the Kindle's battery life is less
than advertised.
That was a long
time ago — more
than three decades — but just now, as she lay in bed listening to a winter
storm raging outside, it seemed like yesterday.
ERIC JEROME DICKEY is the New York
Times bestselling author of more
than twenty previous novels, as well as a six - issue miniseries of graphic novels featuring
Storm (X-Men) and the Black Panther.
Regardless of age at the
time of neutering, neutered Vizslas were at greater risk for developing fear of
storms than their nonneutered cohorts.
All of our
time has been spent managing the more
than 2 feet of snow with each
storm and final count of more
than 6 feet before mid March.
With the highly anticipated official release date of Naruto
Storm 3 in North America, South America, Australia, and Europe less
than 3 weeks away the good
times just keep on rolling!
Ultimately, a perfect
storm of high prices, shifting interests, poor
timing, and bad decisions killed the LaserActive, and Pioneer ended support for it in 1995, a little less
than 2 years after launching it.