Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After meeting with Beame, two labor leaders threatened a general strike, which would shut down most public services, paralyze transportation, further diminish investors' confidence and seriously disrupt the city's economy. Said local Teamster President Barry Feinstein: "We have given our blood. The unions are bleeding to death...
Norway's policy has been to tap its oil wealth slowly, so as not to bring in gushers of money all at once and disrupt the economy. Unlike Britain, though, Norway has firmly made up its mind as to what role the government should play. Through Statoil, the state oil company, Norway controls most of its oil industry. It buys up to 75% interests in production ventures; Statoil and Mobil along with other oil companies are partners in Statfjord, Norway's biggest oilfield yet (3 billion bbl. in reserves). Headed by Arve Johnsen, a 41-year-old economist...
...school strike when the teachers' contract expires on Sept. 22. The situation in Boston is further complicated by the fact that Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity, who ordered the busing, is determined to keep the schools open. He might intervene if he thought a teachers' strike would disrupt his highly organized desegregation program...
...Freshman Union--a huge building which caters primarily to freshmen and whose high ceilings and long tables emphasize noise and impersonalism--sets much of the Yard's tone. The Harvard presidents whose portraits surround the main dining room look down disapprovingly on the chaos and food fights which frequently disrupt meals there. Dining rooms in the Quad are smaller and more intimate, with more round tables and many more upperclassmen, and the noise level rarely reaches the pitches it does in the Union...
They can?and do?disrupt currency markets by shifting huge sums from, say, dollars into Deutsche Marks. They can concentrate production in countries where tax and pollution laws are most lax, and foil national economic objectives by shifting their operations around from nation to nation. For example, multinationals poured considerable money into Germany, and hurt that country's efforts to battle inflation by holding down the money supply. Many executives of multinational corporations would welcome an international code of conduct. Capitalist countries would help their economies operate more smoothly if they agreed to treaties harmonizing the tax, pollution and accounting...