Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked forward to using the conference to stake a claim as Africa's spokesman, black as well as Arab. Tshombe, whose African peers regard him with distaste as Patrice Lumumba's accused assassin and as a white-backed agent of "neocolonialism" as well, was sure to disrupt Nasser's tea party, and Nasser was determined to keep him out. Tshombe was just as determined...
...problems, labor also sees its political influence waning, and is watching with some chagrin as a Democratic President woos businessmen as ardently as he seeks labor's support. On the other hand, few businessmen care to underestimate labor's still considerable power-particularly the power to disrupt. This week Walter Reuther is scheduled to decide whether to take the United Auto Workers out on strike. On his decision depends whether the U.S. economy will be shaken by the effects of the year's first major strike...
...view departmental courses have a proper role to play in General Education. A controlled competition between the departmental and General Education courses can, on the whole, be mutually beneficial; though, of course, the options must not be such as to disrupt the coherence of the Program...
...battle is far from over. A change of government could disrupt the whole military program. Disaffected Liberals have joined in a leftist opposition movement that will test the Frente Nacional's strength in congressional elections next week. But for the first time in years, the atmosphere is hopeful. Pablo Samper, a Bogota businessman, actually took his wife with him on a recent visit to his 5,000-acre finca in northern Tolima department. "I used to spend the weekends there with my family," he says. "Maybe the time will come again...
...week at Ford's River Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, is indeed handsome. It has a rectangular, Ferrari-like front grille and a low, racy silhouette, but its most attractive feature is probably its price-less than $2,500. At any rate, Buhlie was not letting the matter disrupt his own plans. A few days after he unmasked the Mustang, he and Barbara Monroe Posselius, 18, were married in Grosse Pointe. The happy couple rode away in a 1964 Mercury sedan...