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• There was a handful of anarchists out to wreak havoc but the vast majority were there for a passionate but peaceful protest. —  mirror.co.uk - Home
• Beijing held $681 billion worth of them in November, but Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, have both issued ominous warnings that they are concerned about Obama's potentially hugely inflationary economic policies and the havoc they could wreak on the value of the dollar. —  Best of the Blogs
• Invasives overwhelm native wildlife and wreak havoc on infrastructure; the infamous zebra mussel clogs water intake pipes at an exponential rate as each female produces one million eggs per year. —  Wildlife Promise
• As the crisis continues to wreak havoc across the globe, it is becoming increasingly clear that the developing world must be further integrated into the existing system. —  Council on Hemispheric Affairs
• Schistosomiasis, trachoma, river blindness, elephantiasis, hookworm, soil-transmitted helminths, and other intestinal worm infections wreak havoc and result in death rates that puts them in the epidemiological running with the more popularly known diseases - AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. —  Nicholas D. Kristof

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