Word: disarrayed
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Like many people, Ellison's rats drank the most when their lives were in disarray. Using injections of neurotoxins, the experimenter made one-third of the rats lethargic and depressed, another third anxious and active. The rest of the rats were left undrugged. At first the jumpy rats drank more, the lethargic ones less. Then regular fighting broke out, including wrestling between anxious and depressed rats, and boxing matches in which the contestants stood nose to nose on their hind legs and threw punches at each other. Food hoarding set in, and all the colony rats, even the undrugged...
...danger of turning obsessive and destructive ?if it has not already done so. Writing in the California State Bar Journal, J. Anthony Kline, a Yale-trained lawyer who serves as legal affairs secretary to California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., offers this catalogue: "The trial courts are in disarray, mechanisms for the prompt resolution of minor disputes do not exist or are inadequate, the adversary process is in disrepute, the criminal justice system is maligned, legal procedures are in many cases hopelessly arcane and unnecessarily complex, and legal services are becoming prohibitively expensive...
Five months after he was forced out as U.S. budget chief, his finances in disarray and his future in doubt, Bert Lance is well on the way to new riches from a number of ventures. One of them is serving as the American connection for oil-rich Middle East millionaires in search of investment opportunities...
...time formally to open the campaign for the forthcoming elections, and the left was in utter disarray. In 1972 the Communists and Socialists had combined forces to create a "common program" of ideas with which they would rule France together. Not six months ago, in fact, French pollsters had predicted an electoral victory of the left that would have given President Giscard the unhappy prospect of appointing a Socialist as his Premier and seeing Communists in the Cabinet. But a serious political falling-out between Communist Boss Georges Marchais and Socialist Party Leader Francois Mitterrand seemed to sink that possibility...
Giscard could take some consolation from the disarray on the left, but his side, too, was afflicted with internal bickering. His coalition could not continue to rule without the Gaullists, who now control 60% of the government's parliamentary majority. But the Gaullists' Chirac was intent on retaining his party's separate identity and position of dominance within the government. In addition, he refused to support Giscard's economic programs...