1.   AIDS increases the financial devastation.

2.   He knows whose wife left him after a book flopped, who stays out of the country to avoid taxes and who survived cancer to face financial devastation.

3.   Hours of often terse and dramatic testimony failed to produce a witness who took a portion of responsibility for the financial devastation of Enron.

4.   In many ways, the financial devastation of his life is as astonishing as the emotional devastation.

5.   In terms of financial devastation, this is the most dangerous insect to hit the state since the classy-wingtipped sharpdresser, more commonly known as Chuck Quackenbush.

6.   It is unreasonable, however, to expect many of the most able candidates to accept what amounts to financial devastation.

7.   Saying that they faced financial devastation, airlines sought a bailout from the government.

8.   Arthur Andersen, too, is embroiled in the financial devastation, its executives admitting knowledge of the destruction of thousands of pages of documents.