Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different challenges to both Government and industry. Cheaper oil could undermine the incentives to save and conserve that have led to the drop in prices. Moreover, it might reduce the willingness of oilmen to take large financial risks to search for new oil supplies. Gyrating prices might also play havoc with the ability of businessmen to plan their investments or even know what their operating costs will be from one day to the next...
Ferndale and Harper Woods, nine miles from downtown, are battered. Although the death toll is low, at least a third of the population of 43,000 of the two towns have been wounded. In front yards, suburbanites watch tree trunks smolder. Because the havoc is not total, the prospect of civil disorder may be great. Hospitals are intact, with doctors on duty and painkillers in stock. But from all over the city, 600,000 injured are begging or simply seizing the tiny supply of medical aid. Hysteria spreads as drivers crowd all three major highways leading from...
Chomsky's characterization of the United States as a "propaganda" state like all the rest--distinguishable only by its more effective and seductive salesmanship--is particularly hard to swallow. For every Sidney Hook who dismissed the havoc of Vietnam as "an unfortunate accidental loss of life" and "the unintended consequence of military action," there was a Noam Chomsky, willing--and able--to stand up and decry the madness. Maybe the reaction came to little too late, but Americans eventually rebelled against their own government's policy and, through their action, ended a nightmare...
Unlike "unthinkables," who believe it is pointless to plan for nuclear war in light of the havoc it would wreak, "thinkables" claim we must plan as if nuclear war might happen at any time. And, say the "thinkables," we must prepare for survival in the aftermath of an atomic battle. Hence, the twin goals of "thinkable" planning are to devise ways to "limit" nuclear war once it starts, and to provide for civil defense in anticipation of the holocaust...
...proved uncharacteristically wary of predicting precisely just how steep or long-lasting the recession will eventually turn out to be. From the crisis in Poland to the future course of interest rates, the weeks and months ahead are a minefield of uncertainties. Any one of several factors could play havoc with even the most carefully devised economic forecast...