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In fact, high-school athletes are three times more likely to sustain catastrophic injuries relative even to their college-age peers, and it takes them longer to return to a symptom-free baseline.
My father had been in a catastrophic car accident, and he died.
Suddenly, I had an episode of catastrophic bleeding.
What happened to me might have been catastrophic, if not for the fact that I was in reach of good surgical access.
We're talking about a society that is retreating into depression and disassociation when we are potentially confronting the next great catastrophic climate shift.
So what you'd be wondering, watching the Human Show, is are we going to confront and address the catastrophic climate shift that may be heading our way by growing our consciousness, or are we going to continue to retreat?
We can see some of the first ideas for retro-fitting some of the catastrophic property that we have in America.
If we face irreversible and catastrophic consequences, we must act, and we must act decisively.
And my lung collapsed, so somebody cut me open and put a pen in there as well, to stop that catastrophic event from happening.
These three images come from three very different parts of the planet, but they all tell the same story of catastrophic drought.
This is a catastrophic normal, and in that moment, I was forced to confront once again that this should never be normal, and as with my childhood, when you're in it, you just accept it.
Look no further than the insurance industry as they struggle to cope with mounting catastrophic losses from extreme weather events.
They'd been struck by a sperm whale, which had ripped a catastrophic hole in the ship's hull.
But I think if we lost everyone with Down syndrome, it would be a catastrophic loss."
This is a child, and what you're seeing here is real data, and on the far right-hand side, where everything starts getting a little bit catastrophic, that is the patient going into cardiac arrest.
If you experience a catastrophic loss, and you feel terrible, and six months later you can barely function at all, then it's probably a depression that was triggered by the catastrophic circumstances.
You look back to the first five shuttle launches, the odds of a catastrophic event during the first five shuttle launches was one in nine.
And three, farther down the road, the bank will suffer catastrophic losses and will fail unless it is bailed out.
The treaty was created because of the catastrophic global impact of tobacco.
We fret too much about minor hazards — improbable air crashes, carcinogens in food, low radiation doses, and so forth — but we and our political masters are in denial about catastrophic scenarios.
We need to reduce C02 emissions in ten to fifteen years by 80 percent in order to avert catastrophic effects.
What are catastrophic effects?
But other students felt it was tragic, catastrophic.
Many believed it was destroyed in a catastrophic fire.
After the first catastrophic month, changes come more gradually.
And in 11 out of 15 of them, let me tell you, they've ended in catastrophic war.
So it's a rather elegant, almost poetic way of looking at the world, but it has one catastrophic problem.
For those of us who are fortunate enough to live in one of the world's great cities, we've never truly experienced the effects of a catastrophic drought.
If we can make smart investments in these new sources of water in the coming years, we can solve our urban water problem and decrease the likelihood that we'll ever run across the effects of a catastrophic drought.
And because they didn't want to admit that for five years they were implementing a catastrophic program in Greece.
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