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Home Secretary Alan Johnson, responsible for overseeing domestic security, said in a BBC interview that care would be taken not to damage "a major part of the U.K. economy," the $8 billion to $13 billion a year generated by the education of foreign students here.

"They will now see significant collateral damage — a major contraction in growth, and the financial system will continue to implode.

The worldwide nuclear power industry faces a special liability problem because of the immense amount of damage a major nuclear accident can cause.

Partly in a bid to rectify the damage, a major from the city of al-Bab, 30km from Aleppo, took the Observer to meet a group of regime prisoners captured in a battle a fortnight ago.

Discussion: Our experimental data clearly shows the DNA protective action of dexamethasone and α-tocopherol with regard to oxidatively induced DNA damage, a major pathogenetic factor that inflammation and cancer have in common.

This study was designed to evaluate the influence of the anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone and the antioxidant α-tocopherol on oxidative induced DNA damage, a major factor in the development of malignancies.

The second bullet that struck his groin damaged a major vein in his left thigh, he said.

But accidents have been frequent — the last major earthquake, off the shore of Niigata Prefecture in 2007, also damaged a major plant.

Parry's injury severely damaged a major artery and a nerve in the bottom of his foot, and swelling threatened to damage the remaining artery carrying blood to his feet.

Of that amount, $60 million would be used to cover estimated operating costs caused by the storm, which flooded four of Amtrak's seven tunnels leading in and out of New York's Pennsylvania Station and damaged a major electrical substation in Kearny.

But a review of recently filed court documents and interviews in Milan offer fresh details about how the CIA allegedly spread disinformation to cover its tracks and how its actions in Milan disrupted and damaged a major Italian investigation.