Word: disarrayed
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...reshape life. Still, the very ubiquity of information technologies has also exposed their limitations. Businesses and policymakers, awash in data and images, have discovered that information is not useful without expertise. With the most sophisticated intelligence-gathering tools at its disposal, the CIA could not accurately portray the disarray of the Soviet economy or predict the collapse of communism. Instead of making people redundant, the high-tech economy has only underscored the irreplaceable contributions of human knowledge and common sense...
...created the Afro-American StudiesDepartment, but saw it fall into disarray inrecent years. Currently, the department has onlyone tenured professor...
...Mobutu and Houphouet-Boigny, their utterances have contained a hint of "Apres moi, le deluge." These old-timers may be calculating that they can stand back, allow chaos to break out as competing factions scuffle for power, then return triumphantly. Mobutu's police did their part to encourage disarray two weeks ago when they fired on people at an unauthorized political rally in Kinshasa, killing two participants...
...meeting ends in disarray less than 30 minutes after it started. "It's shameful," says Marian Victor of the Peasant Party. "There were only a few of us present, and we couldn't even communicate." The same could be said of all Romania as it prepares to go to the polls in the first multiparty elections in more than four decades. Presidential candidates representing parties opposed to the ruling National Salvation Front have been shouted down, pelted with eggs and physically threatened...
...leadership of the Undergraduate Council is still in disarray over whether last Sunday's meeting was technically valid, but it appears the body will implement the session's decisions despite lingering constitutional questions...