Word: disruptions
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Spain is one of the few European nations that must still contend regularly with terrorists. But the Basque extremists, who had threatened to disrupt the 1992 festivities, were severely weakened by recent arrests of their top leaders. Nevertheless, the group showed signs of life last month when it bombed a navy van in Madrid, wounding 13. Although Spain's 17 regions are gaining more autonomy, the national-identity issue remains explosive. Catalans and Basques, who control their own schools, police forces and television stations, envision an even more independent future under a Euro-umbrella. The Basque country, says Guernica Mayor...
...Russia is still in the espionage business. At a time when Moscow is heavily dependent on the West's goodwill and financial aid, the pertinacity of Russia's spies has become a significant irritant between Russia, the U.S. and several of Washington's allies. Though unlikely to disrupt discussions on such important matters as arms control, the continued spying threatens to undermine U.S. support for a further easing of the cold war-era ban on sales of Western high-technology goods to Moscow. It could also block the detente that the Yeltsin administration is seeking between its foreign-spy agency...
When you discuss the federal deficit, you are thus talking about very big bucks indeed. And when you discuss ways to reduce the deficit, you are talking about making extremely difficult choices that are likely to disrupt the life of the nation and the individual lives of virtually all of its citizens. That is why so few incumbent politicians -- and so few voters -- have been willing to engage in serious discussions of the problem. That is also why Presidents Reagan and Bush, for all their budget-balancing rhetoric, never came within $60 billion of actually submitting a balanced budget...
...July 1, Kiev plans to replace the ruble completely with a new national currency, a move certain to disrupt already weakened trade links between Ukraine and the rest of the Commonwealth. Critics argue that by insulating Ukraine from Russia, Kravchuk is trying to avoid the kind of radical market reforms demanded by international lending organizations. Kiev counters by arguing that economic subordination to Russia is a drag on Ukraine's development as a sovereign state...
Similarly, we find in Gates' book that these conservatives feared that the women and people of color who were entering traditional literary institutions would disrupt the canon of literary values and force what they called "tribal" or "parochial" cultural traditions on Anglo-American culture...