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The Lloyd’s market brings together hundreds of insurance buyers and sellers and has global influence on how companies and consumers protect themselves from catastrophe.

Through it all, one lesson became clear: that even in the worst-case scenarios and the toughest of crashes, catastrophe isn't guaranteed for all.

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This made him doubly upset, for what a catastrophe that would have been!

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With so many people watching this catastrophe unfold, the odds that any one of them would offer to help were tragically slim.

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“Their goal was bringing about a catastrophe on the train line.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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