Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official Bonn spokesman, meanwhile, dismissed Begin's accusations as "misleading and insulting," and inexcusable even during an election campaign. Though Begin supporters denied the charges of electioneering, there was little doubt that his anti-German tirade was popular at home. Begin seemed downright pleased by the diplomatic havoc he had wrought. Said he: "I won't lose even a moment's sleep...
...linksters face only two more matches before meeting the other Division One teams--May 1 against Providence and May 5 against Dartmouth. Raffi predicted that the Crimson will wreak havoc against the Friars and mentioned plans for "revenge" against the Big Green...
...blarney, Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico easily held his eleven fellow Republicans together against all attempts by the ten Democrats to narrow reductions in social programs. Frustrated and divided, the Democrats in the end joined in a unanimous vote for the full package. "We are wreaking unbelievable havoc on the lives of millions of poor Americans," mourned Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum -just before he meekly murmured aye on the last roll call...
...truly pious and pretenders. It is difficult for modern audience to feel at home with such a theme; hypocrisy is understandable, but religion no longer has much place in modern consciousness. All the same, Tartuffe was worth Moliere's struggle three centuries ago, and his villainy will probably wreak havoc for' a few more...
...turned sour. When the poor year-end statistics were made public, Thatcher was being pilloried for what Labor's Denis Healey, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, called her "punk monetarism." Said Eric Varley, Labor's spokesman on employment matters: "The consequences of this doctrinaire obsession are still wreaking havoc in every part of the country." Thatcher's own Industry Secretary, Sir Keith Joseph, glumly admitted that his government "lost the first year," and the Economist magazine, which had supported Thatcher's election, characterized her economic experiment as "a prescription for electoral suicide...