Word: disruptions
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...Caspar Weinberger, a Harvard graduate, is met with rotten eggs and racuous protest. Thus last spring, a South African diplomat was blockaded at Lowell House, and a sit-in disrupted business at 17 Quincy St. And while students in the Committee on Central America did not themselves disrupt the speech by a Contra rebel this spring, they were hardly critical after it was broken up by other protesters...
...liberalism is a very bad message for any university to be giving to outsiders, and the fact that Harvard is one of the most respected educational institutions makes this message even worse. We should stand for tolerance, not intolerance. We should stand for freedom of speech, not freedom to disrupt speakers. We should stand for the open mind, not the closed...
...BEGINNING of Legend, the king of the wood elves tells Jack, the forest boy (Tom Cruise): "You can't expect to disrupt the order of the universe and not pay the price." The "price" here refers to the rest of the movie, a slipshod amalgamation of trolls, witches, ugly bat-like things and one-eyed executioner types that belong in pro wrestling. Sad to say, Legend is too high a price for even the fantasy flick lover...
...traditional view of women as supplementary wage-earners ignores the reality that lower middle-class Asian families typically depend on two or more salaries in the household. The unemployment of 500 women threatens to seriously disrupt Chinatown's family-oriented community of more than 6000 people...
...tracts off Northern California. This could be the first of five sales of California leases. Many Californians fear that more offshore leasing would mean beaches blackened by spills, increased air pollution from diesel-powered pumps, and other health and environmental hazards. Fishermen claim that increased drilling activity would disrupt their $1.25 billion industry and that pollution would harm feeding and spawning grounds. Businessmen dependent on the state's $31 billion tourism industry fear that the mere sight of oil rigs along stretches of California's wild coast would drive away vacationers...