Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly before Gillooly pleaded guilty, Harding denied his charges, insisting in a statement that "Jeff Gillooly's accusations appear to evidence a continued practice of abusive conduct intended to disrupt Tonya Harding's life and destroy her career." But Harding's word has a poor record for stacking up against the truth. On Jan. 18, she initially told investigators that Gillooly was innocent. Later in the interview, however, after an FBI agent told Harding he knew she was lying, Harding did an abrupt about-face. "I know now he is involved," she said of her ex-husband...
...impending marriage to a perfect twit; her mother tensely determined that the bourgeois niceties of the occasion will be punctiliously observed; his mother glumly sorry to inflict her son on anyone; and descending on them a worldly and eccentric woman -- Auntie Mame with a foreign accent -- eager to disrupt the ritual politesse of English suburban life...
DeWolfe resident R. Christopher Berdik '96agreed that the structures did not disrupt theneighborhood, and said "It's definitely notLeverett Towers...
...When you have to tunnel underneath and disruptthe river, you disrupt the watershed," said TomMalcolm, public information supervisor for theCentral Artery/Tunnel project...
...problem with NAFTA is that, like almost any change, it will disrupt the lives of some Canadian workers, some American workers and some Mexican workers. They are a tiny minority, but anyone who thinks he or she might wind up in that tiny minority is understandably fearful and upset. And vocal. Compounding this, there are those who would play to those fears with demagoguery, rather than minister to them with reassurance and support...