"Pandora's Clock," a disaster story about a virus turned loose on a plane, was not a critical favorite.

It's become one of those theatrical disaster stories we all love to tell each other, like the prop telephone that rings at the wrong time.

It is also entertaining, with the slightly illicit thrill any real-life disaster story delivers.

After six years in development, the i432 microprocessor became one of the great disaster stories of modern computing.

Very rarely, we carry on covering a disaster story like the way we are doing with this one.

Less than a quarter of that came from the latest disaster story, at Home Depot.

It is a disaster story with the kind of upbeat spin that television traditionally cherishes.

This grim disaster story is also a rich social history.

Give us a happy ending and we write a new disaster story.

The history of foreign investing is littered with disaster stories.