Word: disarray
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...Such disarray hurts children from all classes; wealth may in fact make it harder for some children to cope. Says Hal Klor, a guidance counselor at Chicago's Lincoln Park High School: "The kids born into a project, they handle it. But the middle-class kids. All of a sudden -- a divorce, loss of job, status. Boom. Depression...
...free-market price for oil is something like $10 per bbl. That is what it sank to in 1986, when OPEC was in total disarray. At the last OPEC meeting, in July, production quotas were assigned to achieve a price of $21. That's what our "friends" the "moderates" wanted. Saddam wanted $25. The difference between $10 oil and $21 oil means, for the U.S., an extra $33 billion a year for oil imports. That doesn't even count an equal sum paid to domestic producers, or the dampening effect on the economy...
Zhelev's victory threw the former Communists into further disarray: several party branches and many prominent officials immediately announced that they would break away from the Socialist Party. Reformers, who were planning a purge of the Old Guard at a party congress in October, welcomed the resignation threats. So did protesters camped in front of the presidential palace, who have vowed that they will remain there until all Communist hard- liners are removed from government...
...this kind of on-one-hand, on-the-other-hand aspect of Souter's behavior that has thrown the likely combatants over a new Justice into disarray. Souter gave a commencement address at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, N.H., in 1976 in which he called affirmative-action rules "affirmative discrimination" and said the government has no place meddling in such initiatives. He flew across the state by helicopter to make ; sure protesters who were arrested for demonstrating against the Seabrook nuclear power plant were forced to serve actual jail terms rather than suspended sentences. He tends to rule in favor...
Those days are long gone. In Washington NASA is under siege, its reputation tarnished, its programs in disarray, its future clouded. Overhead, the crippled $2.1 billion Hubble Space Telescope orbits, its vision blurred by an embarrassing, inexcusable flaw in one of its reflecting mirrors. In Congress legislators are having second thoughts about any further funding of the highly touted $37 billion space station, questioning its usefulness and NASA's ability to assemble and operate...