| Is there anything a CEO can do to prevent a calamity in making an acquisition? |
| The enormous wartime demand lifted prices and finally ended more than a decade of calamity and collapse on the American farm. |
| In the few seconds before my lucidity gave way to blind panic, I felt no little sympathy for the poor chap as he faced this calamity. |
| Unfortunately, historical reality is no respecter of conventional wisdom and often requires it to change course if calamity is to be avoided. |
| Though it appears to be a natural calamity, to a great extent drought is a man-made calamity. |
| Chaos reigned as officials and reporters haplessly endeavoured to stay calm through the calamity and make some sense of the senseless. |
