Word: disrupter
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...three-mile-wide buffer zone along the Kosovo border, created by NATO to keep Serbian forces at bay, has become the perfect working environment for Albanian rebels. NATO's new plan allows for lightly armed Serbian troops to patrol a section of the zone near Macedonia in order to disrupt rebel incursions. Meanwhile, in Kosovo, U.S. troops have stepped up their patrols...
...would also disrupt efforts to safeguard the future of Medicare and Social Security. The majority of Bush's "contingency reserve" represents money from the Medicare surplus, which both parties have agreed should be saved to help fulfill future obligations. This money would be useless in responding to any "contingencies," since spending it would be equivalent to raiding the Medicare fund. The Medicare system is already in danger, and there is no reason to impoverish it further...
...doing this because we want to disrupt the lives of their families," McKean said, "But by not giving a living wage, they're disrupting the lives of thousands of families. It's easy for them to forget that...
...second, with the score at 67-66, Ivy League fans in seven states held their collective breath as they waited to see whether or not Harvard could disrupt the Ivy basketball oligarchy that has rested on the 45-mile stretch of I-95 between Princeton, N.J. and Philadelphia for the last half-century...
...commercially, is investing heavily in the technology as a way to combat its chronic domestic food problems. C.S. Prakash, a scientist at the Center for Plant Biotechnology Research at Tuskegee University in Alabama, recently accused anti-GM activists of being "well-fed folk" who "jet around the world" to disrupt technology that will benefit the poor. According to Prakash: "Biotechnology is one of the best hopes for solving ... food needs when we have 6 billion people, and certainly in the next 30 to 50 years when there will be 9 billion on the globe...