But the value of Ecuadorean wages fell by half, devastating families who could barely make ends meet.
"I'm keeping track of what's being said and thinking: 'This is the funniest thing that ever happened.' Half of me is devastated and half of me is not in the moment, disconnected from reality.
But that final minute and a half was devastating.
WIMBLEDON, England — Like the main human characters in "Planet of the Apes," tennis fans might have trouble recognizing the world they return to Friday when play reverts to the bottom half of the draw, the same half that was devastated by the exits of Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka, among others, on Wednesday.
Max works as a bicycle messenger in the year 2019 in an anarchic Seattle half-devastated by an electromagnetic pulse set off by terrorists that has crippled the global economy.
"Ain't you tired of being out here?" In all, more than 30 blocks of Broadway -- a distance of a mile and a half -- were devastated overnight.
The unprecedented pooling of sovereignty over vital resources was a statement of intent: the western half of a devastated continent was determined that the wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45 should never be repeated.
It's been a week since Hurricane Michael — the worst storm to hit Florida's Panhandle in half a century — devastated Panama City, a town of nearly 38,000 residents.
The expectations for a bumper autumn harvest evaporated as the worst drought in half a century devastated crops and sent corn and soybean prices to record highs this summer.
The scale of proposed investment is breathtaking, comparable only to the rebuilding of Western Europe after World War II when the Marshall Plan provided capital, expertise and energy to pull half a continent devastated by fighting and suffering off its knees.
The state archives were devastated, almost half of their records lost.
