| 1 | The First Division was practically wiped out in the battle. | |
| 2 | All 10 S&P 500 sectors fell, with materials, energy, financials and industrials faring the worst. | |
| 3 | But you can' t give it up entirely because to do so may not allow you to avoid, in extremis, a major meltdown. | |
| 4 | Probably the best we can hope for is that they will avoid the beggar-my-neighbour economic nationalism of the 1930s. | |
| 5 | The Unity Alliance, a cross-sectarian competitor to Mr Allawi led by Jawad al-Bolani, the interior minister, was almost wiped out. |