Word: havoc
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...policy coordination. The enhanced role that emerging-market economies play in the global system calls into question the relevance of the present Group of Seven structure of world economic summitry. As events and decisions in Brazil, China and East Asia contribute heavily to stabilizing the economic system or wreaking havoc on it, it is about time that an economic and monetary policy coordination structure be put in place that integrates the new important players--even if this means that some members of a previously exclusive club will lose their privileges...
...these games resemble the first times Harvard met Cornell and St. Lawrence, however, Kuusisto will be watching her explosive teammates wreak havoc on the opposing goalies. Harvard boasts the conference's most productive offense, scoring 6.48 goals a game...
...discovery of a huge Windows NT virus that wreaked havoc in the computer networks at MCI WorldCom over the weekend the first manifestation of a new era of cyber-paranoia? This at least was no urban legend of virus-bearing e-mail that will trash your hard drive if you read it: As ZDnet reports, at least 10 sites and thousands of servers and workstations at MCI were crippled by a bug that disables executable files and locks users out of .DOC and .XLF files. And although the origin of the virus remains unknown, the fact that it was timed...
Chances are you've had plenty of dealings with those irksome little enzymes cyclooxygenase 1 and cyclooxygenase 2, better known as cox-1 and cox-2. They're what you suppress every time you take an aspirin. Trouble is, aspirin, ibuprofen and other over-the-counter pain killers wreak havoc on the stomach lining--and kill thousands every year through internal bleeding. So last week, an FDA advisory panel gave the green light to Celebrex, the first of a new breed of drugs called cox-2 inhibitors that promise to deliver all the relief of today's pain killers with...
Young people have always been known to commit mischievous and malicious acts for fun. Since today's youth have grown up with computers and technology, it is not surprising that they now use this technology to pull pranks and wreak havoc in the Internet, administrators...