calamitously

For instance, the precipitous declines in home values and investment portfolios — realities that no doubt weigh heavily on readers of this magazine — feature calamitously in both eras, but in the 1930s a far smaller portion of the population owned houses or equities than does now.

Life In (and After) Our Great Recession 2009

On the third hand, there are real calamitously costly high-tech "heroic" medical costs, not expected and often near the end of life (or threatening to be so).

Taxes and Health Insurance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Logitech leapt into it last year, calamitously; in the first three months of 2011 more people returned its "Revue" set-top boxes than were sold as Christmas good ideas turned out to be flops.

CES 2012: what to expect from consumer electronics in Las Vegas 2012

He even escaped Gallipoli, where after a calamitously botched Allied campaign more than 50,000 Allied and Turkish troops died on the steep slopes above his head – only to die in March 1917 aged 23, in the First Battle of Gaza.

Letters from the front to go on show at Christ's College, Cambridge 2011

All legislators-turned-presenters, however, should remember the example of Harold Wilson who, three years after resigning as prime minister, hosted a BBC chatshow called Friday Night, Saturday Morning, and performed so calamitously that the editions feature in polls of TV's worst moments.

From porn to Portillo | Mark Lawson 2011

For instance, the precipitous declines in home values and investment portfolios — realities that no doubt weigh heavily on readers of this magazine — feature calamitously in both eras, but in the 1930s a far smaller portion of the population owned houses or equities than does now.

Life In (and After) Our Great Recession 2009

Say what you will about a civilization that screws up as calamitously as ours is doing in the Gulf, it's still hard not to get a lump in your throat when entering the massive Javits Convention Center and encountering exhibitors as far as the eye can see engaged in nothing more harmful than trying to amuse and inform humanity.

Authors on the (Far) Edge of Fame 2010

As the recession worsened, auto sales dropped calamitously, from around 17 million cars sold a year to fewer than 10 million.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

As the recession worsened, auto sales dropped calamitously, from around 17 million cars sold a year to fewer than 10 million.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

Promoters of something called "resilience engineering" suggest that planners should put more effort into designing systems that resist disruption and that degrade gracefully, rather than failing calamitously when stressed.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Hacker 2010