1.   Already the young farmer has lost more than half his winter wheat crop to a crippling drought.

2.   State Comptroller John Sharp told lawmakers Friday that the state should call out the National Guard to deliver hay to bail out Texas farmers suffering through a crippling drought.

3.   The economic crisis has coincided with crippling droughts caused by El Nino currents.

4.   The three-act piece tells the vaguely allegorical story of a tribal people faced with a crippling drought.

5.   Victims of war and three years of crippling drought, these people are at the end of their endurance and in desperate need of assistance, aid officials say.

6.   Victims of war and three years of crippling drought, these people are at the end of their endurance, aid officials here say.

7.   A year after a crippling drought destroyed corn crops across the Garden State, area farmers are reporting a strong growing season.

8.   El Nino produces climate abnormalities around the world, ranging from crippling droughts and fires to floods, severe storms and hurricanes.

9.   For the past year much of rural Indonesia has been impoverished by a crippling drought that has decimated rice harvests.