Word: disrupt
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...Gusmorino's worst moment occurred on April 22, when the council contentiously voted to condemn the Progressive Student Labor Movement for its Mass. Hall sit-in. Gusmorino was left exasperated as some council members attempted to disrupt the council's quorum by walking out of the meeting while others tried to stop them...
...twice as likely to suffer from depression as the rest of us. Depression, it turns out, often precedes the onset of diabetes--and may contribute to it. Depressed patients often overeat and have sedentary lifestyles, both of which may promote insulin resistance. Furthermore, some antidepressants, particularly the older tricyclics, disrupt glucose control. The good news: proper treatment of depression may actually improve diabetes...
...more difficult. To censor chat rooms, Beijing has adopted broad guidelines that ban content that "is against the national constitution, endangers state security, reveals state secrets, sabotages unity among ethnic groups and spreads heretical ideas." In Britain, laws against terrorism now cover actions that "seriously interfere with or seriously disrupt an electronic system" such as e-mail bombs or viruses...
...time war and demographic change would seriously disrupt routine at Harvard College, the Class of 1951 had graduated...
...student protesters said they do not want to disrupt commencement but feel a visible action is necessary to call attention to the ongoing lawsuit, which has been largely ignored outside the American Indian community...