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WASHINGTON — President Obama is considering a request by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to deploy National Guard troops along the southern border to stop a devastating wave of violence from spilling into this country from Mexico.

PAGE A11 MULLING TROOPS ON MEXICAN BORDER President Obama is considering a request by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to deploy National Guard troops along the southern border to stop a devastating wave of violence from spilling into this country from Mexico.

But in the span of a week, a devastating wave of attacks has killed dozens of civilians, rattled a public not easily shocked anymore and forced the government to concede that innocents are being swept up in the violence.

CUERNAVACA, Mexico — The Obama administration's chief law enforcement officials traveled here on Thursday to meet with their Mexican counterparts and begin formalizing plans to join forces against the drug cartels that have unleashed a devastating wave of violence that threatens to spill over Mexico's northern border.

Had pay structure extended over a decade and included a performance metric tied to a diverse product portfolio, drug companies might not be facing a devastating wave of patent expirations and dwindling drug pipelines 10 years later.

The bomb, the largest conventional explosive in the American arsenal, is designed to explode three feet above the ground, sending a devastating wave of fire and blast several hundred yards to kill troops, flatten trees, knock over structures and demoralize those beyond the immediate impact zone.

NAIROBI/ GENEVA, 28 October 2011 – One hundred days since famine was declared in parts of southern Somalia, UNICEF and its partners are doing their utmost to prevent a second and potentially more devastating wave of deaths from disease against a background of conflict.

Similar sentiments expressed across the political spectrum underscored that whatever the difficult and uncertain diplomacy ahead in the Middle East, Mr. Bush's call to replace Yasir Arafat has the practical effect of appealing widely to pro-Israel constituencies on the right and the left that had been shaken by the devastating wave of suicide bombings.

Referring to the spring offensive the Taliban announced late last month, Mr. Mujahid said in a statement to reporters, "The enemy, with these kinds of rumors, is trying to halt the devastating waves of the 'Badar' operation and create confusion amongst the mujahedeen".

The assignment takes the form of a summer camp hosted by the Survivors organisation, during which Dooley will subject herself to a potentially devastating tidal wave of virulently anti-science and anti-commonsense rhetoric and assess the effect is has, both on her and the unfortunate American youngsters who are involved in this stuff for real.

The Edhi foundation was at the forefront of the response last year when a devastating heat wave struck Karachi, a city of about 20 million people.