The imperative for such savings is viewed as so strong it is used to justify risking major dislocations in the health care system.

"But now we are seeing major dislocation."

What gets to them perhaps even more than major dislocations like arrests, they say, is the daily wear and tear, the erosion of their regular lives.

The country's economy would not be able to stand a major dislocation at the present moment.

If no further major dislocation or subluxation occurs, no other external stabilization may be required.

This summer brought dislocations, major and minor, good and bad.

Approximately half of major joint dislocations seen in emergency departments are of the shoulder.

And I would tie it to this major dislocation in terms of the way success and money are regarded.

The country's flirtation with double-digit inflation in the late 1970's caused major financial dislocations.

Yet, these events are trivial compared to the major dislocations that true environmental catastrophe would trigger.