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- adjective Finding place after an
earthquake .
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Yet UN officials said this epidemic was unexpected, attempting to excuse their slow response and failure to quarantine the zone where cholera broke out - even as they took credit in preceding months for preventing a postearthquake outbreak of infectious disease.
Crossover Dreams: The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is Lying to You Crossover Dreams 2010
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Business & Finance Toyota expects to resume production at 90% of capacity from June and match last year's output in 2011, a move signaling a sharp rebound from its postearthquake doldrums and one indicating the company's previously gloomy forecasts were overdone.
What's News— 2011
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Yet UN officials said this epidemic was unexpected, attempting to excuse their slow response and failure to quarantine the zone where cholera broke out - even as they took credit in preceding months for preventing a postearthquake outbreak of infectious disease.
Crossover Dreams: The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is Lying to You Crossover Dreams 2010
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I will be forever grateful to Stephen McDonell, Robert Hill, Yao Liwei, and Jiang Xin of ABC for finding space in their tent for me during the postearthquake thunderstorm in Yingxiu.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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I will be forever grateful to Stephen McDonell, Robert Hill, Yao Liwei, and Jiang Xin of ABC for finding space in their tent for me during the postearthquake thunderstorm in Yingxiu.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Yet UN officials said this epidemic was unexpected, attempting to excuse their slow response and failure to quarantine the zone where cholera broke out - even as they took credit in preceding months for preventing a postearthquake outbreak of infectious disease.
Crossover Dreams: The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is Lying to You Crossover Dreams 2010
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I will be forever grateful to Stephen McDonell, Robert Hill, Yao Liwei, and Jiang Xin of ABC for finding space in their tent for me during the postearthquake thunderstorm in Yingxiu.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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If you belong to the "blame Haiti" camp, you're less likely to ascribe the postearthquake mess to outsiders than to the country's defective political culture.
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The public, on the other hand, sees it in moralistic terms; thus our tendency to steer attention and money toward those places, like postearthquake Haiti, where suffering is most extreme.
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The public, on the other hand, sees it in moralistic terms; thus our tendency to steer attention and money toward those places, like postearthquake Haiti, where suffering is most extreme.
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