"I think everyone walked up to the edge, looked over, and saw disaster," said a Western diplomat here.

Still others are finding buyers who see disaster as opportunity.

But whatever anyone else thinks, for the person who sees disaster in a given choice, the suffering is real.

So if economists could see disaster coming, why couldn't Brazil?

Burden saw nothing but disaster ahead; and a Republican president the next year.

But then, seeing disaster, she had made a proper decision.

She couldn't wait to wake up tomorrow to see what disaster that day would bring!

He did not see disaster approaching from the right until it was too late.

God knew he'd seen enough disaster that resulted from distraction.

"The English see disaster ahead, and then change course to make sure they meet it head on."