Shortly after I arrived, I went through registration and I was greeted with a flood of people, VMworld has truly become one of the biggest Technology conferences.
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Macedonian authorities blame Western nations for allowing more than a quarter of a million people to flood the nation.
CNN: Annan defends U.N. refugee aid, says agency 'overwhelmed'
The way you described it in the article, the information was there, provided, but buried within a flood of information, and the people responsible for looking at it, well, nobody could figure out who was responsible for looking at it.
The official Pakistan Television Corporation only showed brief footage of Mr Zardari at the flood barrier, and of him visiting a camp for 2, 500 displaced people at a women's college in Sukkur.
Edinburgh's trams project has received a flood of applicants to drive the vehicles, with 350 people going for just 12 jobs.
BBC: Edinburgh trams: 350 people apply for just 12 driver jobs
Special clauses were also inserted to cater to a particular western European anxiety: the prospect that the EU's rules on free movement of people and labour will lead to a flood of poor Muslim immigrants heading west.
For example Canvey Island, which saw a terrible loss of life in the flood, has three times more people than 60 years ago.
This is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ), which is still facing a flood of lawsuits stirred up by the Vioxx recall.
In March a network was set up called Sheffield Flood Resilience with the aim of helping people to become more resilient to flooding.
And in 1952, 34 people were killed in a single flood in the Devon town of Lynmouth.
The North Sea flood of 1953, which killed 307 people, led to a further building of sea walls and groynes.
More than 70, 000 people around Kent can now receive a message as part of the flood warning service.
Some property owners without flood insurance (which mortgage lenders require of most people living in flood-plains) will get relief from a federal disaster-loan programme.
Since 1984 London has been safely protected by the Thames Flood Barrier, built to prevent a repeat of storm surge that caused widespread destruction and killed 307 people along the east coast of England in 1953.
Information-technology professionals can create the groups, but employees should be permitted to create them, as well, so that people can follow topics they are interested in without having to sort through a flood of information, Mr. Sacks says.
Right now, a flood of new genetic variants that predict disease are emerging, thanks to devices that compare thousands of common genetic differences between people.
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