Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remember the Chicago Seven? Well, they were seven men accused, under a somewhat dubious conspiracy statute, of plotting to cross state lines to disrupt the 1968 Democratic Convention. They stirred up demonstrators and helped lead street protests against the Chicago police that often turned violent. One of their leaders was Jerry Rubin, field marshal of the yippies. Remember the yippies? Well, they were the Youth International Party...
...Intercom Conspiracy the hero is an editor with a drinking problem and so much alienation that he edits a right-winganti-communist newsletter run by a crazed American general: he falls into a plot by two bored intelligence officers in western Europe to disrupt NATO. The CIA, the KGB and other intelligence services get involved, and Ambler's knowledge of how these organizations operate--the old-boy networks; using journalists as front men--is so extensive that recent revelations about...
...surface, this year's labor-bargaining outlook would seem heavy with the menace of outsized wage boosts that could speed up inflation and strikes that could disrupt the accelerating recovery, or both. Nearly 4.5 million workers are covered by major contracts that expire or come up for reopening in 1976; that is twice as many as last year. The most important contracts cover five vital industries: trucking, rubber, construction, electrical equipment and autos. They are being renegotiated after two years in which the average hourly earnings of workers in U.S. private industry have risen less than the prices...
Walter A. Rosenblith, provost of MIT, said yesterday that although the institute is not willing to act as a "metropolitan unit" for the Boston area, it does not object to allowing Harvard students to enroll in the program so long as the increased size does not disrupt its functioning...
...think there is much less censorship here than there is in most countries of the world. [But] the press has been controlled by a few people, and the role it played was the role it was ordered to play by these people, and that was to try and disrupt as much as they could. They told blatant lies the whole time...