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Most other historic buildings around the square succumbed to the devastating earthquake of 1755 (see page 18).
In October 1997, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection described the potentially devastating implications of poor information security from a broader perspective in its report entitled Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures.
The same insects that transmit these devastating human parasites often possess a diversity of mutualistic and parasitic bacterial endosymbionts.
Wieseltier's 1995 essay on "the decline of the black intellectual" wasn't really the "devastating critique" of West's work that Weisberg once took it to be, and it's relatively good to hear that although Weisberg had hitherto set his lights by it, he no longer agrees with Wieseltier's conclusion that West's work is "almost entirely worthless."
The NYT says that failure to reach an agreement would be a "devastating blow to Clinton's prestige and to the search for a Middle East peace."