Word: havoc
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...born every day. The goats knock down cacti and trees and munch on the vegetation on which the tortoises depend, while the burros trample the tortoise nests. Elsewhere on Isabela, dogs have eaten most of the land iguanas. On Santiago, goats, pigs, burros, cows and rats have wreaked havoc on the native plant communities. Fire ants and two types of alien wasps have taken hold on several islands, as have 300 species of non-native plants--100 of them in the past decade...
...problem in this case is not candy, but malicious programs--usually disguised as friendly applications--designed to wreak havoc on your computer and your data...
...rains that drenched Cambridge Saturday evening previously wreaked havoc with the tournament schedule at Princeton, delaying the start of the first round until...
Medicare and Medicaid budget cuts proposed by congressional Republicans would unfairly burden the poor and elderly and wreak havoc on the Massachusetts economy, Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) said at Cambridge Hospital yesterday...
...evacuation of Philadelphia International Airport when a bomb-sniffing dog incorrectly drew attention to a rental truck, and at Houston's Hobby Airport, where a flight was grounded after a college student joked to a ticket agent that her luggage contained guns, grenades and a bomb. Technological glitches wreaked havoc not only in Fremont but also in Miami, where an air-traffic-control center lost power for an hour because of a lightning strike. Both sorts of delay no doubt enraged stranded passengers; but slowdowns are usually proof of caution. Says Linda Hall Daschle, the FAA deputy administrator: "In every...