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...impending marriage to a perfect twit; her mother tensely determined that the bourgeois niceties of the occasion will be punctiliously observed; his mother glumly sorry to inflict her son on anyone; and descending on them a worldly and eccentric woman -- Auntie Mame with a foreign accent -- eager to disrupt the ritual politesse of English suburban life...
DeWolfe resident R. Christopher Berdik '96agreed that the structures did not disrupt theneighborhood, and said "It's definitely notLeverett Towers...
...When you have to tunnel underneath and disruptthe river, you disrupt the watershed," said TomMalcolm, public information supervisor for theCentral Artery/Tunnel project...
...problem with NAFTA is that, like almost any change, it will disrupt the lives of some Canadian workers, some American workers and some Mexican workers. They are a tiny minority, but anyone who thinks he or she might wind up in that tiny minority is understandably fearful and upset. And vocal. Compounding this, there are those who would play to those fears with demagoguery, rather than minister to them with reassurance and support...
...Ambassador Robert Oakley. But he evidently concluded that the U.S. and the U.N. were making so much progress putting together the beginnings of a peaceful regime that his chance of eventually taking over the whole country was slipping away; he could retrieve it only by causing enough trouble to disrupt the mission. In early June his forces ambushed Pakistani troops inspecting unguarded weapons depots, killing 24. An outraged Security Council responded with a resolution authorizing "arrest and detention for prosecution, trial and punishment" of those responsible. Eleven days later, retired U.S. Admiral Jonathan Howe, Boutros-Ghali's chief deputy...