Cautious investors will prepare for any such disaster by investing in life boats big enough for their whole portfolios, but not so expensive that they would be better off just staying on the dry land of cash and money market funds.
Now that the smokers are on dry land, the next step is analysis.
The only dry land on the farm was an area about eight feet wide around the house.
Nicknamed the Little Red Schoolhouse and perched on dry land in the French Quarter, comfortably above sea level, the school now brims with energy, ambition and rising test scores among its 420 students, more than 90% of them from low-income African-American families.
To help make the underwater photos as great as those captured on dry land, the camera has a built-in underwater macro mode producing amazing pictures up close while diving or snorkeling.
About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.
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There were several keynote speakers throughout the week, giving presentations that looked into different forms of mining, whether it on dry land or in the ocean, challenges of mining in arctic climates and responsible environmental mining among others.
The stragglers are naturally keen to join the first ten on dry land.
Land reclamation: process of creating new, dry land on the seabed.
"When the streets started to be redeveloped the event planners realized it was easier to do these types of celebrations on dry land, so they forgot about the river, " said Evans.
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The joint venture is composed of NNPC (55 percent), Shell (30 percent), Elf (10 percent) and Agip (5 percent) and operates largely onshore on dry land or in the mangrove swamp.
Yet on dry land, she is the one slurring her words and being mistaken for being drunk.
Now back on dry land after broadcasting on the latest work on the research ship James Cook in the Cayman Trough, I'm still picking up messages from people amazed at getting such an extraordinary vision of the reality of the deep sea.
Vincent Signorotti of CalEnergy, which owns ten plants around the sea, is rather looking forward to the prospect of more dry land on which to drill.
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Engineers trying to prevent grids from becoming overloaded on dry land might learn a trick or two from the navy's researchers.
Somali pirates, whose oceanic depredations deter investment and trade on dry land, have been much less successful in the past year, thanks mainly to more effective protection of shipping convoys.
McCARTHY: Santos, an agronomist and native of Portugal, says specialists from Lisbon are here with him cloning grapes from Shiraz to Chardonnay to cultivate on his land, an experiment he hopes will develop the varieties most apt to thrive in this dry climate.
Furiously paddling back to dry land I look behind me, only to see the rest of the crew still on the water, ambitiously trying to get a few more shots!
The smog arrives around this time every year, as loggers and farmers on Indonesia's island of Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo take advantage of the dry season to clear land by burning trees and scrub.
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