Word: disarray
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Rubin may have saved Mexico from defaulting on its loans and prevented the Asian economic crisis from catapulting the world into economic disarray, but his path to the Commencement podium began much more humbly...
...magazine that chronicles the harsh realities of life for young Bulgarians. With exposés on sex, drug communes and military service - stories that would have been unthinkable just five years ago - Karbovsky has become a cult figure whose cool cynicism castigates the country's chronic social and economic disarray...
Their very forthrightness may have helped squelch suggestions that a bribe was involved. Their portrayal of a White House in disarray--the Final Daze--sounded so plausible that some thought it explained why Clinton waived his Executive privilege and allowed his counselors to testify. This is what passes as the best defense--not that he was venal but that he was an idiot. "I think that people are finally tiring of it," Podesta told Time, "but as long as it's still selling cable-TV rating points, it will probably go on a little longer...
Like all construction sites, the library is fascinating in its assemblage and disarray. Concrete and glass are shored against future crises of construction or history. Of course, it's hardly the largest project around: beyond Cambridge, the Big Dig spills into campus life by means of odd detours en route to the North End and Hadean holes surrounding the airport...
...twice the $290 million earned from U.S. sales in the previous fiscal year. But this bounty hasn't come worry free. The intricate Canada-U.S. grid that links energy producers and consumers--and that makes it so profitable for B.C. Hydro to transmit power south--is in growing disarray. The consequences could be even higher prices and more uncertain supplies for Canadians as well as Americans. "We need a stable energy system on the continent," says Ray Hart, deputy director of the Department of California Water Resources. "I don't know if we'll get it." In particular, rising...