Fortunately/Unfortunately

[ValiantArcher]

Fortunately, the medicine chosen was correct.

[waggawerewolf27]

Unfortuately, the activities of the ship's parrot allowed several journalists to make a big fuss at the navy's expense.

[ValiantArcher]

Fortunately, few people paid much attention to the negative press.

[waggawerewolf27]

Unfortunately, the press, instead, got busy finding negative angles on some perfectly innocent romances.

[ValiantArcher]

Fortunately, those involved in the reported romances were far too much in love to care about unsubstantial articles.

[Meltintalle]

Unfortunately, the original writer of the articles had an attack of conscience when they saw how happy the couples really were and lost their job to someone with even less scruples.

[waggawerewolf27]

Fortunately, the new, more unscrupulous, writers of articles were so outlandish in their gossip columns that nobody believed them any more, and they were forced to stop writing such rubbish.

[coracle]

Unfortunately the paparazzi began taking photos of the people in embarrassing situations.

[waggawerewolf27]

Fortunately, the paparazzi were thrown into gaol because the secret services didn't like the competition.

[ValiantArcher]

Unfortunately, the secret service had an unfounded idea of what constituted competition and thus the paparazzi were released.

[waggawerewolf27]

Fortunately, the pictures the paparazzi took did not sell at all, due to an earthquake in the region.

[ValiantArcher]

Unfortunately, said earthquake caused a lot of problems for all.

[waggawerewolf27]

Fortunately, there were fewer casualties and damaged buildings that time, due to precautions learned and put into practice since a previous, more severe incident.

[ValiantArcher]

Unfortunately, even minor repairs took a while.

[waggawerewolf27]

Fortunately, the people doing the repairs learned a lot more from the earthquake about what precautions worked well and what didn't work so well.

[NarnianMonkey]

Unfortunately, a volcano erupted a few days later, thus undoing every single last repair that the people doing the repairs had just fixed and then some.