"Periods of war are periods of tremendous disruption," she said, and sometimes the negative effects are great even when the war is not fought on one's own soil.

And even if many workers return to the payroll, the cost would be tremendous disruption in the lives of some of the city's poorest-paid employees and the poorest people they are supposed to serve.

There have been no life-threatening situations yet, but Dr. Endrich said that in just three days there had been "tremendous disruption" for patients.

A shrewd business man, he had to deal with the tremendous disruptions to trade caused by the partition of India in 1947, and during the years which followed he worked to rebuild the flagging jute industry.

If this isn't done correctly, it could create tremendous disruption among states.

"There's nothing in a merger for the clients," Mr. Bronfman said, adding that a takeover would lead to "tremendous disruption."

However, the Great Depression caused a tremendous disruption in employment.

"We fear that this will be a tremendous disruption to our children at school," Mrs. Dorman said.

Granato's life, meanwhile, suffered a tremendous disruption.

TCP is used nearly universally, a tremendous disruption to the Web would result if TCP connections frequently were to break when neither endpoint has failed.