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The condition of a long-lived asset is affected by its durability, the quality of its design and construction, its use, the adequacy of maintenance that has been performed, and many other factors, including: accidents (an unforeseen and unplanned or unexpected event or circumstance), catastrophes (a tragic event), disasters (a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction), and obsolescence.
Press, contends that it was Schulz's "calamitous artistic misjudgment" that allowed Snoopy and cuteness to overwhelm the "left-field" magic that characterized the early strip.
In London, the Times, which has opposed Pinochet's arrest, criticized the British government for rejecting "the best way of settling this calamitous affair, allowing General Pinochet to fly home on Chile's waiting jet" and, instead, permitting the court decision in his favor to go to appeal.
An unscientific mind, noting the tendency of relief aid to gravitate toward electorally rich states, might even conclude that the gods of mayhem conspire with incumbents to provide calamitous occasions for the demonstration of political compassion.
A Che who, like any ordinary communist politician, had never killed anyone; a Che who had survived his guerrilla adventures, and was today an elderly figure, administering some grim bureaucracy for Fidel Castro or, alternatively, writing books at home in Argentina, surrounded by his anti-communist grandchildren--a Che like that would cause no stir at all today, and writers around the world would not be straining their brains to draw ever finer distinctions between the man's calamitous influence and some undefinable greatness.
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