For them the Great Recession is not a cute aphorism but a major cataclysm.
What we all know is that this country has been through the worst economic cataclysm of our lifetimes.
But Blizzard hopes that Cataclysm will help fight stagnation in World of Warcraft and keep paying users playing.
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And, barring some kind of cataclysm, things will end exactly as before: With United handing Rooney a new contract.
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He says, true we are headed into a recession, but he doesn't think we are on the verge of cataclysm.
Firstly, it has been the psychological blow suffered as the country has been reminded of its vulnerability to natural cataclysm.
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Written in these circumstances, the diary offers an immediacy that few documentary sources can in the day-to-day record and analysis of this cataclysm.
Besides Cataclysm, Blizzard may have ambitious plans for the expansion of its Warcraft and other franchises over the next five years.
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It was the West's obsession then with appeasement that set the world on course for the cataclysm of World War II.
Undeterred by the polls, the Conservatives predicted an 80-seat majority, oblivious to the political cataclysm that was about to engulf them.
The Egyptian cataclysm slots into Israel's endless national debate, much as Anwar Sadat's assassination did in 1981, when Mr Mubarak assumed power.
Thank David Stern for his staggering sanctimoniousness in this opaque cataclysm.
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The doomsday scenarios of climate cataclysm lie in the fat tail.
Blizzard has stepped up efforts to offer easy digital downloads, and Mists will likely sell way more copies of Cataclysm online, numbers we do not have yet.
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History suggests that, in the absence of nuclear deterrence, the world would eventually be plunged yet again into the sort of cataclysm that twice scarred the 20th Century.
Unfortunately, the least risky approach politically is also the most dangerous: do nothing until the world is faced with a cataclysm and then slip into a frenzied crisis mode.
If your loved one is more into orcs, guilds and dragons, the latest title to the popular "World of Warcraft" franchise, "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, " might make a good gift.
If this cataclysm was at the same time a function of currencies, tax rates and incentives, trade laws and the other elements of the supply-side catechism, then we ought to have heard more of it.
In "This Is The End, " an unspecified global cataclysm wipes out many famous actors playing themselves (including Michael Cera), so Rogen and friends hole up at James Franco's house and try to ride it out.
First we have investment bank Lazard Capital Markets pointing to disappointing retail numbers, 600, 000 to 700, 000 copies sold, as a marker of its failure, as those numbers are down 60% from the last WoW expansion, Cataclysm.
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The more pessimistic tend to see analogies with the early 20th Century, after the Boer War and before the cataclysm of 1914, and it is true there are similarities with the British debate about decline during that period and the current American introspection.
If the cataclysm of the first world war had destroyed any belief in the immutability of a civilisation based on liberal, progressive British values, the origins of the morbid age can also be found in developments in the natural and social sciences that occurred well before 1914.
It has kept you, or someone you love, from having to fight and possibly die in the kind of global cataclysm using non-nuclear (or "conventional") weapons that engulfed our countrymen and untold millions of others twice in the last century, before the dawn of the nuclear age.
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Clinton and Gore should be under no illusion: Whether fairly or not, they will be held accountable if, as a result of a failure to ensure that both the public and private sectors are induced to take corrective action on the Millennium Bug -- and helped to acquire the means to do so -- a long-predicted, well-understood and utterly avoidable cataclysm befalls the Nation, its people and interests.
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