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Word: disrupter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embassy's all-Vietnamese volunteer fire department waiting patiently in their yellow coats in the parking lot. Herrington had asked them earlier if they wanted to leave but they insisted on staying to the last in case they should be needed to put out a fire that might disrupt the evacuation. Aboard the U.S.S. Okinawa, Herrington was reunited with Summers, who told him, "You saw betrayal at its worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAIGON: THE FINAL 10 DAYS | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...problem is that the Driscoll effort threatens to disrupt a principle that is cherished in liberal Brookline--the principle of equity, which holds that all the public schools in the town should be comparably funded, equipped and staffed. Thus when a father offered to donate $40,000 to cover the cost of an additional kindergarten teacher, the school turned him down, prompting the father to send his child to a private school. And when another parent offered to donate $100,000 worth of computer equipment to the Heath School, he had to agree to divvy up the equipment equally among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEYOND BAKE SALES | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...warned: "We're headed toward a muchmore serious conflict that has the potential todisrupt the entire community." She said a futurestrike might involve Locals 34 and 35, which wouldseriously disrupt the university's functioning

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Striking Yale TAs Vote to Unionize | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

...deliberate attack on CIA employee Durell, pointing out that only he was directly fired upon. Van Landingham died because she was sitting beside Durell and came in the line of fire. Yet another theory is that Prime Minister Bhutto's Mohajir opponents may have planned the killings to disrupt a recent warming in U.S.-Pakistani relations: the Prime Minister will visit Washington next month, and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are expected to arrive in Pakistan-though not in Karachi-on March 26 at the beginning of a 10-day Asian trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHEN THE BARBARIANS OVERRUN THE STREETS | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...lesbian groups] want to ram their radical agenda down our throats and disrupt a peaceful event," said John W. Hurley, spokesperson for the South Boston Allied War Veterans' Council (SBAWVC). The SBAWVC has sponsored the parade since...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Gays Excluded From Parade | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

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