Running on a surface on which he had never raced before, at a made-for-summer seaside track that never before ran a race this late in the year, and facing the devastating prospect for a Kentucky Derby and Preakness champion of four losses in a row in the same calendar year, Chrome cruised to victory.
"This could, in future, offer another valuable option for those who face the devastating prospect of not being able to start or add to their family.
These couples must also endure the emotionally devastating prospect of not having hospital visitation rights when emergencies strike.
And for cities in desperate trouble, sweeping control by an outside manager would make it possible to fix things faster — and avoid devastating prospects like bankruptcy.
Faced with these devastating prospects, people of Bangladesh started organizing protest marches and rallies across the country.
On September 19, in the ongoing bankruptcy drama in Detroit, the political turned personal when city-worker retirees, facing the devastating prospects of seeing their pensions cut, had their day in court.
Also, the Cuban Communist Party's continued intransigence on human rights issues and escalation of repression in recent months could deal a devastating blow to prospects for a successful normalization of US-Cuba relations and undermine America's credibility as a guardian of human rights in Latin America.
But for a nation with old memories of the Korean War and fresh scars of a devastating economic crisis, the prospect of ties with North Korea seemed both daunting and scary.
