Jennifer Parker's day had started disastrously.
So are 350, 000 refugees in the disastrously overcrowded Dadaab camp near the border with Somalia.
It could dash, disastrously, the EU's already flagging enthusiasm for expansion.
Productivity is disastrously low: the return onnew investment is around half that in America.
The subsequent siege ended disastrously with a raging fire in which scores of people were killed.
This is not South Korea's first experience with good intentions going disastrously awry.
The country avoided a property bubble of the kind that burst so disastrously in Spain and Ireland.
It would be easy simply to blame predatory bankers who got greedy, conning people into absurdly unaffordable loans that came disastrously unstuck.
Unless the government can take charge again, properly providing for its people, Haiti will remain chronically and disastrously addicted to foreign aid.
In the 1990s, many pension funds made far too big a bet on equities, a gamble that went disastrously wrong in the 2000-02 bear market.
So the end result of the long campaign against government is that we've taken a disastrously wrong turn. America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere.
Unemployment is disastrously high, while U. S. inflation data over the past few years almost perfectly match the early stages of Japan's relentless slide into corrosive deflation.
