Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officer with no unit, no fixed duties and an inexplicable relationship to the general that permits him to witness all sorts of unedifying carnage. He has an estranged wife (rather gamely played by Jacqueline Bisset), whose function it is to become a refugee so that we can see what havoc was wreaked on the civilian population by the Communist invaders. One has not seen a heroine's hairdo stay so splendidly in place, no matter what her travail, since the 1940s. The $46 million did not go into the battle sequences; they look cheap, have neither scale nor point...
...allow victim's families to testify at trials, forcing people to hear the havoc drunk drivers have wreaked...
Also wreaking havoc in the Friar backfield was Jennifer White, who combined with Martin on several give-and-go plays that almost resulted in Harvard goals. White set up the best score of the day when she broke free on the left side of the net, drew Providence's Judy Van Schelt out of the net, and then fed Martin in front of the open goal...
...runaway cost of health care has played havoc with the federal budget, which has seen outlays for federally financed medical coverage under the Medicare and Medicaid programs rise from $26 billion in 1976 to $56 billion in 1981. In a desperate effort to slash expenditures and trim a projected overall budget deficit of at least $103.9 billion for the fiscal year that begins in October, Congress agreed to slice $15.2 billion off projected spending of $270 billion for the programs over the next three years...
When Mexico's El Chichón volcano came abruptly to life in late March and early April after more than a century, it killed 187 people, forced thousands from their homes and created havoc over a wide area of Mexico. Since then, 3,721-ft. El Chichón (The Lump) has simmered down, giving off only occasional blasts of steamy vapor. But the mountain continues to be an object of intense scientific concern. Though the initial blowup was relatively small. El Chichón pumped so much dust and debris into the upper atmosphere-perhaps more than...