Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Damage done by the "Cornell virus," a havoc-wreaking computer program written by 1988 Harvard graduate Robert T. Morris Jr., has prompted new interest in the possibility of a program in ethics in technology, computer science professors said last week...
...businesses. Congestion is helping boost the total cost of moving people and goods, which amounted to $792 billion in the U.S. last year, or 17.6% of the gross national product. Delays and disruptions can quickly spread inflationary price increases through the economy. Case in point: gridlock can play havoc with the just-in-time inventory system, a popular Japanese-style management technique in which manufacturers bring in parts at the last minute rather than stockpiling large quantities...
Hoffman's novel suggests that in adition to the phyiscal torture of AIDS, the disease wreaks mental and emotional havoc on those in contact with the diseased. At Risk is a novel with a message: with such a sweeping affect, the virus can only be stopped if we work together and not against each other to educate the ignorant and fight the paranoia and irrationality that has infected our society...
Once the bees cross the Rio Grande, scientists fear, they could wreak havoc among U.S. beekeepers and farmers whose crops depend on bees for pollination. Reason: aggressive Africanized bees, which will interbreed with their gentler domestic cousins, are less efficient pollinators and honey producers...
...dead earnest, look to the alignment of the stars for guidance. As White House chief of staff for two years, before he was forced to resign in February 1987, Regan was in a position to see how the First Lady's faith in the astrologer's pronouncements wreaked havoc with her husband's schedule. At times, he writes, the most powerful man on earth was a virtual prisoner in the White House...