Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early activist in the solar energy and ecology movements, Einhorn now specializes in getting hold of an unknown cause and making it popular. "When public structures become despicable, it is the duty of citizens to disrupt them," he said...
...year conflict between the faculty of the School of Public Health and its dean, Howard Hiatt, has now involved the school's Alumni Council--where threats have been made to actively disrupt any fundraising efforts on behalf of the school until the faculty and Hiatt come to "just terms...
...critical imbalances in world trade caused by Japan's insatiable urge to export and parsimonious reluctance to import. In fact, such cosmetic exercises only give the illusion that something is being done and delay the looming showdown when Japan is finally forced to realize that it cannot indefinitely disrupt the balance of trade in the world without itself suffering the consequences of the disorders that are bound to follow...
...beside the pool of his government hideaway near Tel Aviv one morning last week when he received an urgent call from his Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan. Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin had called a special Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Its purpose: to head off a crisis that was threatening to disrupt Jimmy Carter's plan for a meeting at Camp David between Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early September...
Then there is the canard that a woman's menstrual cycle inhibits peak performance. World and Olympic records, however, have been set by women who were having their periods. Nor does exertion disrupt the cycle for most women athletes. Says one world-class runner: "I'm so regular, it's ridiculous." However, some women undergoing hard training do stop menstruating for months at a time. This cessation of the cycle, called amenorrhea, occurs in about 45% of women who run over 65 miles a week-as well as in dancers, ice skaters and gymnasts. Many experts link...