Word: disruptively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Star Wars? Just another lame-brained American idea that probably won't work. If it does work, it might be dangerous to Western Europe. And either way, it is likely to disrupt arms-control negotiations with the Soviets. All the same, we can't afford to stay...
...bodyguards, both Sikhs, assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as she was walking from her residence to a television interview in her garden. Now, declared Home Minister S.B. Chavan, "a coordinated, well- planned operation has been launched to terrorize, to create fear in the minds of citizens and to disrupt communal peace and harmony." The government, he said, would take "the sternest measures" to restore peace and order...
Sniffing a connection, Rampino and a Goddard colleague, Astrophysicist Richard Stothers, among others, proposed an ingenious way that the oscillating journey might trigger bombardments on earth. Whenever the sun passes through the Milky Way plane, they suggested, the swirls of dust it encounters would gravitationally disrupt the Oort cloud, a vast bubble of comets that scientists believe surrounds the solar system at a distance of up to 10 trillion miles from the sun. Like a lazy fruit picker shaking plums from a tree, the dust would send showers of comets falling toward the sun. Some comets would collide with...
April 5: Harvard police escort Mass Hall administrators and other workers through the group of 50 encamped protesters, who decided the night before not to disrupt Mass Hall business. President Bok stays away from his office for the second...
...representative of the universally abhorred South African government at a luncheon, and we are angered that contrary to earlier promises made by the Conservative Club president, the post-luncheon discussion was not open to people who wished to attend (the protesters stated that they did not intend to disrupt the speaker...