Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With no previous indications and the suddenness of the news, Harvard entered the contest in disarray and seemingly unprepared to handle a game without its star...
...desire to work with the underprivileged that got Wu, who took accounting in college, interested in recycling. After spending six years in the U.S. and Japan studying that industry, she returned home in 1989 to find Taiwanese recycling in disarray. National laws required that manufacturers pay fees to subsidize the reuse of materials from such products as bottles and cars. But independent foundations were set up to receive the money, and critics charged that little ever went to recycling firms...
Even so, Hitler could not have triumphed, says Ambrose. With Britain and the U.S. in disarray, the Soviets might have overrun Germany, Italy and France. The European continent would have fallen to the communists, and the Red Army would have been poised at the English Channel. By this time, the Allies' only recourse would have been the atom bomb...
...time has come to lay down our gloves and let the randomization fight rest. We must acknowledge that our worst nightmares have not come true--many of the Houses have retained elements of their old cultures, and the fabric of undergraduate life has not frayed into disarray. Extracurricular groups have picked up much of the slack in the realm of community formation, and while Harvard College is certainly not the same as it was pre-randomization, we cannot honestly contend that it has been measurably harmed...
...Perlman's Ordeal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 329 pages; $24), novelist Brooks Hansen has some serious fun imagining the case of Sylvie Blum, a.k.a. Nina, the pubescent bringer of confusion and disarray into the physician's otherwise detached and antiseptic existence. As a hypnotherapist, Perlman is a hands-off healer. As a closet onanist, he is a hands-on pioneer of safe...