disaster

We see the same in companies with toxic corporate cultures, where it's just a matter of time that disaster strikes.

AMNA NAWAZ: Gary is also one of the poorest cities in America, and experts have noticed -- noted, rather, that severe weather and natural disasters tend to disproportionately hurt lower-income communities.

Zemblanity is the misfortune by design that we built into fragile systems or into the pattern and habits that kind of then ultimately lead us to disaster.

The real risk of dating isn’t that our partners will be awful (there’s no end of fun to be had turning minor disasters into dark wit), but that once in a while, they may be unblemished and sweet.