Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vexing. But engineers and scientists are concerned about the potential for more serious problems. Just last month, at a conference at Montana State University, scientists warned that storms in space--like hurricanes and earthquakes--could have a devastating impact on society. Among other things, a large storm could totally disrupt communications over large swaths of the planet and cause power outages capable of paralyzing major urban centers...
...cell anemia, because finding tissue matches for African Americans (who are affected by the disease more often than any other racial group) has proved, for complex genetic reasons, especially difficult. The technique could also boost the damaged immune systems of AIDS patients, provided scientists first find a way to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the AIDS virus within the transplant candidate. "If the virus could be controlled," says Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, one of the study's coauthors, "the immune system could be replaced...
...final round of the election. Lebed turned up at his new office at dawn and told a group of journalists he would sort things out. "The only thing we have accomplished in five years was holding these elections," he said, "and now there has been an attempt to disrupt the second round. Any revolt will be put down, and harshly...
...Israel for defending itself against attacks from an elusive attacker (of which 12, not six members were killed) and not impugning Syria (whose 35,000 troops have occupied and controlled Lebanon since 1976) or Iran for promoting the attacker is putting the cart before the horse. Israel did not disrupt the peace process by its attacks; on the contrary, its refusal to allow terrorism to rule the region actually advances the movement to achieve a comprehensive agreement between the nations in the region. Once terrorism ceases, there will no longer be any need for "occupation" or self-defense. --Michael...
Even if the dining services union strikes, Bozzotto said, it will not attempt to disrupt any of this year's Commencement festivities--in contrast to Yale University employees, who are holding a massive demonstration in New Haven next week...