Now, with the state budget six weeks late, a new and potentially cataclysmic deadline looms - May 25.

Confirmed, Captain," the Vulcan said, "and on a potentially cataclysmic scale.

First detected by a group of amateur astronomers, the Wormwood is a supermassive asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth, projected to arrive in approximately five hundred years with potentially cataclysmic consequences.

In the face of no apparent danger, the body begins to prepare the organism for a potentially cataclysmic confrontation.

But fixed-rate systems bottle up tremendous economic forces that eventually spew forth with potentially cataclysmic consequences.

"This is a potentially cataclysmic point in the history of this issue," said Jeffrey M. Berry, a political scientist at Tufts.

In written testimony in the California litigation in 2001, Mr. Adams said the random fouling of data in computers was "an enormous problem, and is potentially cataclysmic."

The Earth's Sun is suffering a major, potentially cataclysmic, upheaval.

In the Angelos case, he wrote that he took "no joy" in the "potentially cataclysmic implications" of that reasoning.

Thanks to Mason's early diagnosis and the Times' responsible publishing, a potentially cataclysmic genetic disas- ter was averted.