But look, it can't AIDS, Iran Contra, the Challenger disaster, Chernobyl.

By contrast, the Rogers Commission, which investigated the causes of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, produced just one report.

Democracy s Saintly Challenger

Then NASA had two large and image damaging space shuttle accidents the Challenger disaster of 1986, followed by the disintegration of the Columbia over Texas in 2003.

And we're still picking up pieces of the Challenger.

The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book.

While the market today has no serious challenger, it is morally vulnerable.

(Terrorism also kept Iraqi oil from becoming a serious challenger to Saudi Arabia.)

The following year, Nadal won two Challenger titles and finished the year in the top 50.

Overwhelmingly, non US citizens favor Barack Obama s re election over a victory for his challenger, Mitt Romney.

The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger.

Twenty years after communism s fall, authoritarian capitalism has emerged as the leading challenger to the spread of democratic values.

Among senior aides to Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a belief developed that he was on the cusp of victory.

Obama s presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, has promised to declare China guilty of currency manipulation the day he takes office.

Nor is there any sign that any of these positions would be modified should Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger, become president.

We are told that the debates this month between President Barack Obama and the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, might decide the election.

First, the tsunami disaster illustrated the lack of a systematic disaster management framework, including disaster mitigation measures, in many countries.

Disaster beckoned.

Disaster preparedness

Disaster response

Disaster recovery

Disaster Relief

This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

Disaster and Development

(f) Disaster management

Blair s EU disaster

Global Disaster Recovery

Disaster risk reduction

for Disaster Reduction

It is no surprise that he backed out of the race, leaving Mousavi, a technocrat and a revolutionary, as the only viable challenger to Ahmadinejad.

When former French President Nicolas Sarkozy faced his Socialist challenger, François Hollande, that was a debate addressing substantive issues and lasting more than two hours.

Recognizing also the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to deploy efforts in all these areas,

Relevant United Nations organizations and donor Governments should strengthen the capacity of disaster prone countries in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and post disaster recovery within a disaster risk reduction framework, by supporting relevant initiatives in this field.

Recognizing the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

Though there was no serious challenger to his authority, Nehru never forgot that he derived his power from India s people, to whom he remained astonishingly accessible.

In Libya, the fortunes of Saif al Islam and Muatasim have waxed and waned as Qaddafi enforces his authority to prevent the emergence of a challenger.

3 Including ESCAP, ASEAN, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center and the Asian Disaster Reduction Centre.

Bush s Second Gulf Disaster

C. Post disaster recovery

Recognizing also the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

The Asian Disaster Reduction Centre is a specialized organization for disaster reduction based in Kobe, Japan.

But it seems unlikely that a revived Japan, a decade or two hence, could become a global challenger economically or militarily, as was predicted two decades ago.

The Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, sought to capitalize on the issue, asserting The president s plans haven t worked he doesn t have a plan to get the economy going.

How Effective is Disaster Relief?

When disaster strikes, we act.