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.
The only dry land on the farm was an area about eight feet wide around the house.
Now that the smokers are on dry land, the next step is analysis.
"It took about two-and-a-half hours to escort the horse back to dry land and into the hands of a vet, " Kelly said.
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.
The discovery conjures up a picture of wandering groups of hunters making their way across dry land where the North Sea is now, after the end of the Ice Age.
The stragglers are naturally keen to join the first ten on dry land.
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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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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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.
It's the very end of the dry season now in Southern Africa, and the land is a dull, lifeless beige.
On dry land, the official government of Somalia remains feeble in the extreme.
Land reclamation: process of creating new, dry land on the seabed.
In that sea of startups, some will undoubtedly sink but many more will swim and the ones that do find dry land will want to begin establishing a rapport, and eventually a partnership, with other like-minded businesses in their industry.
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"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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And he was seeing them not from dry land but from the midst of churning whitewater, as he paddled his kayak through the rapids and the rocks.
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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.
In Chen's village of Nongmei in Guangxi, the land this year is too dry for spring planting.
Weiss believes this climate change initiated a mass migration away from dry-land farming to the creation of irrigated fields along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, allowing the people to build some of the earliest institutions of civilization.
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.
If the land coveted by the EPA is dry, a different statute is cited, and different birds (spotted owls) are sent in as an occupation force.
To break free of this unhappy equilibrium, farmers must set aside a portion of their land to grow cash crops in the dry season, when they fetch a high price.
Sea levels were 150 feet lower then, because the cold had locked up so much moisture in northern ice-caps, so not only were most Indonesian islands linked by land, but the Persian Gulf was dry and, crucially, the southern end of the Red Sea was a narrow strait.
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The speed of land loss has accelerated while aquifers run dry.
Chile's dry summer climate in the central zone, where rich land is watered by the melting Andean snows, is comparable to the best of California or New Zealand.
'Father says the earth got too hot underneath, like you do in bed sometimes, so it just hunched up its shoulders, and the sea had to slip off, like the blankets do off us, and the shoulder was left sticking out, and turned into dry land.
Engineers trying to prevent grids from becoming overloaded on dry land might learn a trick or two from the navy's researchers.
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