Word: disruption
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...relentless pace of blockbuster deals is raising profound and disturbing questions. While economists generally praise mergers as good for the economy, many critics voice strong doubts. They charge that even the friendliest consolidations can derail careers, disrupt communities and create unmanageable mountains of debt. Perhaps worst of all, evidence is accumulating that many celebrated past mergers have been colossal failures. Warns Sigurd Reinton, a partner in the management-consulting firm of McKinsey & Co.: "The benefits of mergers and acquisitions are often overrated. You cannot generalize and say all acquisitions are bad, but there is a sufficient number that, at least...
...their unenlightened compatriots. The narrator of Annamalai, a writer by trade, describes his method of coping with a difficult but intriguing servant: "The only way to exist in harmony with Annamalai was to take him as he was; to improve or enlighten him would only exhaust the reformer and disrupt nature's design." From Narayan's decision to suspend judgments hangs a galaxy of irresistible tales. --By Paul Gray
...summer, and on Sept. 11, ash spewed forth for seven hours, accompanied by a roaring sound and electrical discharges. But for all these red flags, experts were unable to pinpoint when the big boom would come, or even if it would. Lacking that precision, Colombia, perhaps reluctant to disrupt the lives of residents with a false alarm, was unable to act in time. In a heavily populated area, says Gail Mahood, a geologist at Stanford University in California, "if you make a prediction and you're wrong, you could cost billions of dollars to an economy...
...Agency (CIA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) marked the best of times and the worst of times for campus activism and free speech. While the Harvard Social Forum (HSF) offered a peaceful, reasoned demonstration against perceived abuses of the agencies, another group of student hooligans attempted to disrupt the event with shameful tactics. We have one question for this latter group: How could you go so wrong...
...steps taken by France, Botha said, "It amazes me that a Western government that takes an interest in Africa and in the interests of black people can take exception to a government that restores order when Communist powers and Communist-inspired powers murder black people and try to disrupt the normal life of black communities...