1.   Normally disasters are hardest on the poor.

2.   The disaster befalling him was huge.

3.   The disaster was so widespread that even Bridgeport and the rest of the Eleventh Ward elected a Republican alderman.

4.   The disaster was within the memory of many men still working at the station.

5.   The report claimed that the disaster was wholly unavoidable.

6.   The Bangkok disaster was the latest in a series of tragedies.

7.   THE Chernobyl disaster was seven years ago this week is still treated as a growing menace in the Ukraine and Belarus.

8.   The author tries to prove that the disaster was also the main cause of the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union.

9.   The Norway disaster had been just an appetizer, it would seem.

10.   Communications were also a nightmare for first soldiers in Ulster -- their primitive radio sets were a disaster in built-up areas.