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This leaves many hundreds of cays that are totally natural, untouched by the destructive influence of humans and offering pristine habitats to hundreds of bird and animal species.
He has been equally destructive as a legislator: A fervent anti-Communist, he championed right-wing despots across Latin America (including death-squad leaders).
An organization like al Qaeda, headquartered in a country on the other side of the earth, in a region so poor that electricity or telephones were scarce, could nonetheless scheme to wield weapons of unprecedented destructive power in the largest cities of the United States.
The optimistic spin: The virus is "more playful than destructive ." The pessimistic spin: Now "simply reading e-mails can be dangerous ."
Coming up with a name like Navistar is certainly creative, and trashing a valuable label like International Harvester is certainly destructive, but the process hardly adds up to Joseph Schumpeter's famous definition of capitalism as a process of "creative destruction."