Word: disruptively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BELL'S ATTITUDE UNDERMINES the very foundation of a center of learning: mutual respect between teachers and students, as thinkers and as human beings. Bell would argue that it was the tardy students who undermined this trust, by interrupting the lecture. Such interruptions do disrupt the learning process; they are one disadvantage of the shopping system. They must be weighed, however, against the merits of the system--the most important being that it encourages intellectual exploration...
...suspension of space flights pending the shuttle investigation may well disrupt plans to launch two unmanned space probes from shuttles in May. If the May launches are delayed the probes won't be feasible again until mid-1987, said Frank Bristow, JPL's chief spokesman...
...junta trial was delivered, the government announced that it had lifted a 60-day state of siege under which constitutional guarantees against arbitrary arrest had been suspended. Alfonsin declared the siege in October to clamp down on an alleged conspiracy by twelve right-wing officers and civilians to disrupt the Nov. 3 congressional elections. The siege ended 15 days ahead of schedule. In that instance, as in so many others, Alfonsin appeared to have moved faster than even some of his supporters had expected...
Critics of mergers and takeovers, on the other hand, charge that hostile consolidations disrupt management and force companies to think mainly of short-term profits rather than of how to become more effective competitors in U.S. and foreign markets. Even the short-term run-up in stock value that frequently occurs in merger situations may not be to the long-term benefit of a company, since it may overstate the firm's actual worth. Martin Lipton, a Wall Street lawyer who specializes in helping companies defend themselves against raids, denounces them "as financial transactions for the profit of the takeover...
...spectre is haunting Harvard College, one that threatens to disrupt equal access to the means of production—the spectre of personal computers. Like the typewriter of the last generation, preeminent mode of production. Because of its prohibitive price, however, only the more wealthy can acquire...