Sentences with phrase «widespread economic devastation»

Unlike past episodes in recent history, the crisis began in the world's most sophisticated financial systems, causing widespread economic devastation.

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High school students in television look nothing like high school students in real life (well, not The Roaring Twenties was a decade of great economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by recovery from wartime devastation and postponed spending, a

Between the shutdown of oil refineries and chemical plants, impaired roads and ports, and widespread damage to homes, businesses and cars, the economic toll from Hurricane Harvey is now being estimated as the second - costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, trailing only the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.