Word: disrupt
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...while overall tech budgets have expanded just 6%. And a three-day war game in July 2002 run by Gartner and the U.S. Naval War College tentatively answered the Pearl Harbor question. It is possible, they concluded, that without proper cybersecurity--both tools and behavior--highly skilled hackers could disrupt the nation's electrical, financial and telecommunications systems...
...image that is becoming all too familiar to Tigers fans. Twice in the past three years a Princeton team has exploded inside Harvard Stadium—threatening to disrupt a Crimson perfect season and to end its own agonizing streak of defeats at Harvard’s hands—only to implode on special teams in the game’s final moments...
Last year’s event saw a pair of freak accidents disrupt an otherwise routine regatta. One man was sent to the hospital when eight-person shell hit him, penetrating his torso. In another incident, in 1996, boats from George Washington University and Brown University collided at full speed...
...chief ways those conditions affect Atlantic hurricane formation is by increasing or decreasing vertical wind shear, the difference in wind speed and direction at different levels of the atmosphere. Too much shear can disrupt the structure of a hurricane's eyewall, whereas more uniform winds allow a hurricane to grow to maximum potential. When Isabel briefly exploded into a Category 5 storm, wind shear was low, and its eyewall formed a nearly flawless cone of clouds some 60,000 ft. high. In the eyewall itself, winds whirled at an epic 230 m.p.h. "When we got into the eye," says Colorado...
According to Carbellano, QRF organizers desire “not to be included within social categories, but rather to work to disrupt those categories through which social power operates...