Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening paragraph of his article, Nordhaus insinuates that PBHA is full of uncontrolled college students that need the constant supervision of University officials to prevent them from wreaking havoc on the Greater Boston area. In fact, PBHA has over 30 responsibly run committees, each independently operated, that range from World Teach, which places individual from all over the world in Kenya to teach school children, to committees which shelter the homeless. I do not consider myself a "20-year-old with noble intentions," but someone who has spent a great deal of time at PBH during the last three years...
...early 1980s, sea levels along the California coast rose an average of 5 in. With the added tides and storms, the effects were catastrophic. Thomas Terich, a professor of geography at Western Washington University, warns that even a slight permanent rise in the average sea level could wreak worse havoc. Says he: "The sites with the highest value -- the sandspits and low beachfront -- are going to be severely threatened...
...expense of an organization it has worked over the past century to establish in the community. Instead, University Hall relegated the problem to Frank Rose--the administrator made famous when he implemented a new time-table for shuttle buses one week before he was supposed to, wreaking havoc among Quad students trying to make it to class. Is a foul-up this big really a problem for shuttle bus managers, or for more experienced--and more higly placed--officials...
...even without viral intervention, would the foreign fetal cells be rejected? Moreover, surgeons will have to know precisely how much tissue from what stage of development should be used in each transplant. Taking the tissue too early, for example, might result in runaway cell growth that could wreak havoc in the brain...
...tons of TNT, a mere .2% as strong as the Hiroshima blast, it would be feeble in a missile warhead. But in space, packed into the closed end of a stubby barrel and tamped down with hundreds of thousands of metal pellets, the low-yield weapon could wreak havoc. Unlike a standard nuclear explosion, which would vaporize the pellets and barrel, this one would spray the pellets through space at speeds up to 100 times that of a high-velocity rifle bullet. These pellets could not only burst the decoy balloons that would accompany a swarm of warheads but also...