In November 1989 Robert Baron watched a 200mph tornado ravage downtown Huntsville, Ala.

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Frequent floods ravage cities in the south and east, and droughts are a regular occurrence in the north and west.

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The solons may vow that speculation and leverage will never again ravage the land, but they might just as well try to repel the tide.

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The rodents ravage the crop, leaving very little for the farmers.

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And foreclosures continue to ravage communities from California to Florida.

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Otherwise inflation will ravage the country just as it has done every other time the Fed has taken rates below inflation and left them there for a protracted period.

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Naturally, with such an inclusive view, the statistics can be skewed to make it appear that the expiration of the top two tax rates will ravage small business owners.

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