Word: disarrays
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...moving euphorically toward political and economic integration. Building on a successful customs union and a common agriculture program, leaders of the Common Market nations envisioned a true Continental community by the end of the decade. The vision is fading fast. Europe has settled into a state of dejection and disarray. So gloomy is the mood that some of the most dedicated pan-Europeanists are even questioning the very future of traditional parliamentary democracy...
...President Bok said this week that a new report could have broad effects on a system of undergraduate education in America that is in "substantial disarray...
...Arabs are encouraging these bilateral pacts because they want to take advantage of international disarray while they can. Since the production cutbacks began in October, other countries have stepped up their output. Indonesia's daily production has gone from 1.3 million bbl. in September to 1.4 million bbl.; Nigeria's from 2.1 million bbl. to 2.2 million bbl.; Iran's from 5.8 million bbl. to 6 million bbl. If these and other production increases continue and demand remains checked, a return to pre-boycott levels of production by the Arab states could lead to a temporary world...
...being offered for the ills of the republic. While not quite a prescription, one arresting thought was put forth by the London Economist, inspired by the soothing pageantry of Princess Anne's wedding amid Britain's own current economic travails and by the disarray afflicting the U.S. The journal rightly divines that both the incumbent in the office and a good many Americans seem to identify the presidency with the country itself. When "we cloak a head of government also with the dignity of a head of state," that person will face "steadily greater temptations to breach...
Like a great natural disaster, the oil drought caused by the Arabs' cutback on production spread ominously through the industrial nations last week. Despite glaring signals of severe shortages ahead, leading consumer countries from Germany to Japan were in disarray. They often worked at cross purposes as each scrambled to get energy supplies only for itself-at almost any cost. Meanwhile oil-producing countries outside the Middle East happily pushed up prices...