Word: disruptively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...significant rivalries do develop, they could seriously disrupt East-West relations. "I don't know whether it will change the direction of Soviet policies," says U.S. Sovietologist Seweryn Bialer, "but I will look for confrontations, divisions, splits - a volatile situation within the leadership. It will be a dangerous, unpredictable period...
After it became clear that students were not going to be allowed to participate in the selection of the dean, CORDS began to develop tactics to disrupt, rather than aid, the selection procedure. CORDS organizers spoke of picketing alumni functions to discourage alumni contributions on the grounds that alumni were also excluded from the selection process. They suggested, in addition, that a battery of students man half a dozen phones to tie up the president's phones...
...Labor's moderate loyalists is unlikely to halt the momentum toward a new political alignment. Labor's right wing has been increasingly unhappy for some time, and, led by the popular Williams, the dissident Social Democrats could eventually attract a wide range of voters. That would seriously disrupt the country's two-party system. Said Brian Walden, a respected TV commentator and former Labor M.P.: "Nothing will ever be the same again in British politics." -By Jay D. Palmer, Reported by Bonnie Angela/London
...Activating mechanisms to disrupt opposition efforts to obtain international support and legitimacy and to limit the impact of such efforts...
...Assessment of the need and preparation of contingency plans for actions intended to disrupt support and supply lines of Salvadorean guerrilla forces in Cuba and Nicaragua...