Word: disarray
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...abandon that link, with possibly disastrous results for its stock and property markets. We got a taste of what that might mean for the U.S. and Europe at the beginning of last week, when global stock markets began cascading downward because of the weakness of the yen. The disarray in those markets coupled with China's complaints prompted the U.S. and Japan to intervene last week to prop...
Such talk was partly the bravado of engineers who recognize that everything in the universe ends in entropy and disarray. It's also the organized religion of any successful start-up: We're working 120 hours a week, and we may be doomed even if we ship our code on time--but at least we're doomed together, so back to work...
...status as an educational institution is not the absence of Linda Wilson's signature on women's diplomas, nor even new landlord-tenant relations. Rather, undergraduates will most feel the effect of the demotion of Radcliffe from the undergraduate educational sphere in a campus-wide nomenclature thrown into disarray...
Khomeini took a different course. All three, at their apogee, were rulers of once great empires that had fallen into political and social disarray. But Ataturk and Nasser were committed to resurrection by beating the West at its own game of building strong secular states. Khomeini's strategy was to reject Western ways, keeping Iran close to its Islamic roots...
...drunk, and what's worse, 12-year-old Francie Brady (played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and further into disarray. It also means that Francie's racing imagination is being fed with cultural junk food--cheap religious icons and TV purveying low-end sci-fi and images of the atomic Armageddon that everyone brooded on in those days...