Word: disturber
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...certainly has inspired Bush, and probably the Democratic candidates as well. But the real guilt rests with us, the voters. We wanted our President to be a collective father figure, an infallible, paternal presence. We wanted to believe Daddy's promises, and to hell with those doomsayers who would disturb our comfortable fantasy...
Ordinarily, this gene--and other tumor suppressing genes like it--"act as guardian genes," preventing tumor growth, Seizinger said. When something happens to disturb the function of these genes--such as a mutation--they produces defective proteins and tumors may result...
...Council now allocates $40,000 for student organizations and social events and reserves $20,000 for administrative costs, such as xeroxing, office supplies and bookkeeping. In its search for more money to address student concerns, the Council opted not to disturb any of the $20,000 it budgets for itself. Instead of shifting its budgetary priorities to reflect its social goals, the Council chose to pinch students harder--doubling the term bill fee to $20 per undergraduate...
Ellsworth has reason to be wary of outsiders, who come here seeking tranquillity and disturb what tranquillity there is. They clog streets, drive up land prices and bring with them some anxieties they hoped to escape. And they talk funny. Not since the fire of 1933 swept down Main Street, consuming 130 buildings, has the character of the town and the region been so threatened. "We're getting a little class," says Victoria Smallidge, owner of the Pineland Diner, who moved here in 1970. Call it what you will, some locals are uneasy about a diner that offers a wine...
Frank Gehry's buildings are still self-conscious and perverse, but they no longer set out to disturb. Tranquillity and polish are now permitted. For a lakeside guesthouse in Wayzata, Minn., Gehry has created a kind of mixed-media outdoor sculpture. Each room is a distinct object: the living-dining room is a central tower, a bedroom is a curve of local stone, and so on. The forms are vaguely toylike (befitting rooms intended to house the visiting children and grandchildren of the owners), or like the extraterrestrial outpost of puckish, inventive earthlings...