Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weather becomes a sign of hope, "the only thing nobody has been able to tamper with." In an environment where everything can change at the whim of whichever army or party has control, the constant drizzle becomes an unlikely redemptive force. These passages provide a reflective distance from the disarray of the rest of the novel...
...organization should distribute grants to programs that fall outside its mandate, and no organization should distribute grants without a clear idea of what that mandate should be. While sources of student grants are certainly sparse, giving money and power to an organization in such disarray helps no one. If a grants process is undefined, it's likely to be unfair...
...Saigon-regime forces were about a tenth of that. Tet was a crushing defeat that practically annihilated the political and military capabilities of the Viet Cong. Yet the offensive marked the beginning of the end of U.S. involvement -- a disengagement freighted with national guilt and recrimination and completed in disarray in April...
...ourselves as a species and our estrangement from nature. Alaska's folly is the product of a theme-park mentality in which nature exists for our amusement, to be enhanced by adding one species and subtracting another. An indiscriminate assault will kill off pack leaders, leaving wolves in hierarchical disarray, and harm eagles, foxes and wolverines, which dine upon the carcasses wolves leave behind. Such contempt for natural order is nothing new, though it comes at a time when many Americans belatedly question both nature's recuperative powers and the human species' claim to a divine right of subjugation...
...least part of that support reflects disenchantment with the disarray and inertia that marked Bush's economic management. "A lot of Republicans felt that any number of things weren't being addressed by the Bush Administration and that we were drifting toward a depression," says Dwayne Andreas, chairman of agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland and a longtime G.O.P. stalwart. "People will be very patient with Clinton if he appears to be heading in the right direction," Andreas adds, "because it will take a lot of time to get the economy turned around and moving again...