Sentences with phrase «enormous hit the country»

Then there's the antiquated infrastructure, held back by decades of economic stasis, in part from the embargo but also by the enormous hit the country took when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

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Academic scientists face major obstacles as they try to collate baseline data on radiation doses in the face of the enormous disruption caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country last month.

The banks did not even know how to handle them and were ill equipped to take on the enormous case load of thousands upon thousands of short sale files that hit their loss mitigation departments across the country from Florida, California, Arizona and Nevada.