Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unnecessary speculation about the future of our technological society, but he also makes the valid point that a neighborhood (particularly a lower-class neighborhood) is a web of vital human relationships which are destroyed whenever the neighborhood is. The planner should realize, therefore, that new highways and urban renewal disrupt the lives of hundreds of people; he should not rearrange cities for purely aesthetic or commercial reasons. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to distinguish Milde's ideas from these of Professor Banfield, whom he quotes at the beginning...
Embittered relations between civilian and military strategists in the Pentagon will increasingly disrupt the formation of American military policy, Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government, predicted in a talk before Toscin last night...
...Numbers. But such nasty little showboating stunts to disrupt the elections were not the only things the Castroites had in mind. Last week Be tancourt offered proof that Communist Cuba was sending in heavy arms ship ments for full-scale guerrilla warfare. On display in Caracas was an arsenal of three tons of F.A.L.N. weapons: 31 submachine guns, five 60-mm. mortars, 20 bazookas, 28 packages of plastic explosives, 81 Belgian automatic rifles with 20,000 rounds of ammunition. Most of the serial numbers and other markings were ground off. But one rifle still had a number - it turned...
...South Vietnamese swamps because of policy inertia. When the approved American line was to support Diem regardless of his liabilities because Washington was concerned with defeating the Vietcong, this support was justified by two main points in favor of Diem: (1) Any attempt to overthrow him would disrupt the war effort and (2) no suitable substitutes existed...
...blowing up each other as they climb to find enemy weapons. "Decoy discrimination" is a system that keeps the ABM from exploding harmlessly on contact with phony missiles and other chaff shot along with an attack. "Blackout effects" are caused by nuclear explosions of ABMs attacking an enemy bombardment, disrupt sound and electronic impulses in the gear that is tracking the incoming missiles...