Word: havoc
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While today's secular checks on the Church's power may prevent the mass executions of the past, they cannot prevent the church from causing havoc in other ways. The pope and teh Catholic hierarchy have been alleged supporters of oppressive militaristic regimes in the Dominican Republic and throughout Latin America...
...sensors count and evaluate, for example, all 24 varieties of cholesterol that have been discovered since the late 20th century. They keep tabs on normal molecules of oxygen as well as the renegade radicals that wreak havoc on individual cells and cause the body to age. No less important, the sensors constantly test the strength of the body's own cancer-fighting forces in the immune system...
...amount of money could ever fully compensate for the havoc wreaked by the Valdez spill, but the record $1.025 billion in fines and damages imposed on Exxon by a federal judge last October should have provided the state and federal governments with an extraordinary opportunity to take further protective measures, assess remaining problems and mollify resentful citizens. Instead, the deal has touched off a chorus of outrage from residents and environmentalists, who wanted a minimum of $2 billion, and has ignited a fierce debate over how best to spend the sum. Says biologist Rick Steiner of the University of Alaska...
WHATEVER THE BANK'S REAL intentions, its actions wreaked by far the most havoc in Britain. When sterling plummeted well below its permitted floor, Major called a series of emergency meetings with key Cabinet members. "This is bloody awful," he reportedly told them. "It's that damned Bundesbank." When dramatic increases in British interest rates failed to halt the slide, the government conceded defeat and ordered the "temporary suspension" of sterling from the fixed exchange-rate system...
...year 2000, the campaign to clear the Pacific Northwest of its majestic, virgin forest could be history. And in their race against restrictions and regulations, the timber companies wreak havoc on the countryside...