Yet 45,000 Americans die each year because they do not have health insurance and millions more uninsured remain one accident away from economic devastation.

But growing numbers of Palestinians have questioned the high cost in lives lost and economic devastation.

I determined that the economic devastation would be severe and long-term.

Economists here are warning of economic devastation that would result from a jump in oil prices.

As with all businesses in our neighborhood, the economic devastation was severe.

"I think you have to consider, then, that what they might be talking about is economic devastation."

In Honolulu, civic leaders are not playing down the extent of their economic devastation.

It's getting harder and harder to close our eyes to the growing economic devastation.

There are no guidebooks available on the best way to bring a city back from the combination of emotional and economic devastation.

The waters are receding but the emotional, physical and economic devastation remains.