Word: disruption
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...worst threat anyone can conjure up arises from overseas, that in itself testifies to the economy's internal strength. Those foreign centimillionaires appear to have more potential to disrupt the economy than any foreseeable bungling by whoever wins the White House--and as the presidential race heats up, that may be another comforting, almost Panglossian, thought...
...school teacher Gretchen, with an I.Q. of 142, was so beloved by the organizers that the crew came out of the bushes and hugged her when she was voted off. The organizers did not feel the same way about Greg, however, who worried how far he would go to disrupt the game. At one point, Greg stalked the camera crew and challenged Probst's council authority...
...still furious that the stadium built to host beach volleyball - the Games' flesh-baring party sport - has cut their beloved Bondi in half. After attempts to halt construction proved unsuccessful, activists have come up with a plan that calls for 1,000 people, armed with giant mirrors, to disrupt telecasts by flashing sunlight at television crews and into camera lenses. "We want the Olympic movement to reflect on its cultural imperialism," says Bondi councilor Dominic Wykanak. Unfortunately, the combination of an unfavorable weather forecast and the stadium's 16-meter walls looks set to frustrate the saboteurs' ambitious plans...
Even greater climate change could be on the way. Growing numbers of scientists fear that the warming trend will so disrupt ocean circulation patterns that the Gulf Stream, the current that warms large parts of the northern hemisphere, could temporarily shut down. If that happens, global warming would, ironically, produce global cooling--and bring on a deep freeze...
...although the R2K network, the protesters' organizing body, had issued a statement saying that Tuesday "was a day to turn the tables on them and to disrupt the delegates' lives," Barr stood calmly a few feet from the masked woman...