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Word: disrupter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Organizers of the demonstration decided to occupy the business school lobby when McGill refused to meet with them. The sit-in was "spontaneous" and did not disrupt official activities, Harlin Greenman, a student who participated in the demonstration, said yesterday...

Author: By Maxwell Gould, | Title: Columbia Students Hold Sit-In, Protest Investment Policy | 5/3/1978 | See Source »

...time has come to revive civil disobedience tactics and disrupt the normal flow of business. DeLeeuw said, adding that corporations and not the government must be the main target of these tactics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economic Policy | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

...Otto von Fieandt, "1978 will be the year of the free lunch." He might have added that it would be the costliest lunch in French history. Many analysts who have dissected the left's platform, or Common Program, believe that it will cause severe economic problems and gravely disrupt France's relations with the rest of Europe. Even some Socialist thinkers accept this analysis-if not publicly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: What the Common Program Means | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...adults. Nonetheless, the tampered oranges were a shock to Europe, especially after it became known that they were fruits of political terrorism. In a letter to the West German government, an extremist group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army-Palestine Command claimed it had doctored the fruit to disrupt Israel's economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SABOTAGE: Strange Fruits | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Businessmen in the area had mixed feelings about the proposed complex. Shirley Orkin, manager of the Jewel Box, hoped the new stores would bring new business to the area but added, "If it resembles a mall too much it will disrupt the character of Harvard Square...

Author: By Jeffrey L. Saver, | Title: Stores, Atrium Planned For Woolworth's Site | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

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