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All these were, as Gore put it on Meet the Press recently, "extremist measures that would have devastated Medicare."
In an air raid by 130 B29s, Tokyo was devastated and 100,000 of its inhabitants perished.
First reported last fall, the epidemic has devastated the entire collection.
The Achaeans’ chief rivals and mentors were the dazzling Minoans of Crete — until about 1450 b.c., when the Minoan empire was devastated, possibly by tidal waves caused by the eruption of the volcanic island of Thera (Santorini).
The war left Greece utterly devastated, and the factions squabbled ceaselessly in an attempt to gain political advantage.