Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-frequency controversies have one thing in common: in each case the electromagnetic waves or fields are too weak to affect human tissue by any well-understood mechanism. They are not known to disrupt living cells or alter DNA the way X-rays and ultraviolet radiation do. If these fields do indeed cause cancer, it is by a mechanism yet to be uncovered...
...double hit in Manchester came one day after a foiled bombing attempt in London. Police discovered and disarmed a load of explosives hidden in a van parked in central London's West End. It was the third I.R.A. attack that authorities have managed to disrupt in the past two weeks, although last April three people were killed in a spectacular bombing that caused $1 billion in damage to the financial district. In the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast, meanwhile, 27 bystanders were injured last week when panic broke out upon discovery of a bomb hidden in a travel agency. Said...
...economic stability might disrupt themovement, Zhou said in an interview with the SouthChina Morning Post Monday. "Many intellectualsfeel that taking this road [economic growthwithout political reform] is not a bad thing,"Zhou said...
...Clinton were to issue an executive order repealing the military's ban on gays effective January 21, liberals like me would celebrate. But there is some legitimacy to Colin Powell's concern that such an order would dramatically disrupt the military and undermine discipline...
...presidential campaign on July 16: he wanted to save his daughter Carolyn from a smear. Seems he got wind from three sources -- two unnamed, one a frequent promoter of conspiracy theories -- of a Republican plot to portray his daughter as a lesbian by circulating a doctored photograph, then to "disrupt" her Aug. 23 wedding by means unspecified. By Oct. 1, with Carolyn married, Perot presumably figured it was safe to get back into the race...