Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...western Washington last week forced the evacuation of thousands. Water is competed for by fishing interests, farmers and the builders of power plants. The water that cools the nuclear reactors comes from nearby rivers and is later returned to them warm. Environmentalists claim that the warm water can disrupt the ecology of a stream. They are stubbornly fighting a plan to build two large nuclear plants on the shores of the Skagit River, campaigning to have a 59-mile stretch of it protected from any kind of development under the federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The plants, Ray argues...
...tried to disrupt the Students for a Democratic Society at the height of the Viet Nam War by printing anti-SDS newsletters in the names of fictitious radical and right-wing groups and distributing them on college campuses. One leaflet circulated in 1967 showed the faces of four Princeton SDS leaders over sketches of monkeys' bodies, with the caption: "Princeton is not 'The Planet of the Apes...
Mark H. Greenberg '75, a third-year law student and a member of the guild sponsoring the demonstration, said yesterday the law students are not involved in any "plan to disrupt the competition," adding that it is important to have a clear statement from concerned students on the directions of the Burger court...
Stop the World remains offensive to this day, in its use of sexual and national stereotypes and in its heavy-handed symbolism. (The "Figure of Death," dressed in a long black robe, drops in every now and then to disrupt the circus-like goings on.) It is a hard show to like for its own sake. But the current Mather House production succeeds in making Stop the World both enjoyable and ultimately moving, in spite of itself...
...theorists leave unanswered the question of why only a tiny minority of students make the crucial transition of character from intellectual dissenter to murderer. Some senior U.S. intelligence officials maintain that international terrorist forces, spurred by the Kremlin, have been concentrating on West Germany in an attempt to disrupt its government and undermine its citizens' confidence in democracy...