Word: havoc
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...Chinese workers, the two-week Lunar New Year festival offers the year's only opportunity to visit their families. After some initial hesitation, the ruling Communist Party's leadership moved quickly to contain any anger sparked by travel chaos, launching a nationwide mobilization dubbed the "war on snow havoc." Premier Wen Jiabao made three trips in a week to areas hard hit by the storms, apologizing to stranded travelers, consoling families of workers killed clearing power lines, and visiting residents of towns that had been without power for more than 10 days. "This is very important, to allow Chinese people...
...about the roughly 50,000 that would leave unemployed? "The others will go into some other civil service corps, vocational training or other job-related training," said, Dubik. "That system is still in development." The question is, will the unintegrated CLCs hold on to their weapons and potentially cause havoc? Korb asks, "Will [the CLCs] turn on the central government at some point...
...news may not be over on Wall Street. On Tuesday, Bank of America announced that its fourth-quarter profit tumbled 95%, largely due to a $5.44 billion trading loss driven by write-downs of collateralized debt obligations, the often mortgage-related securities creating havoc on banks' balance sheets worldwide. Rumors circulated that the Bank of China would be the next to report big losses...
...violently. In the two weeks since the elections in Kenya, more than 500 people have died and tens of thousands have fled their homes. What was a peaceful nation, a beacon of hope in Africa and an economic powerhouse in the region, is now descending into havoc. It is increasingly clear that opposition party leaders are instigating the violence in spite of their public statements advocating peaceful protest. It is Odinga’s imperative to ensure that supporters of his party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), do not continue to use violence By provoking anger, Odinga and his cohorts...
...More than likely, all three factors played a role in Bhutto's death - imperfect protection (if not criminal negligence), a risky campaigning style, and an extremist group waiting for the perfect opportunity to create havoc in a country already teetering on the edge of collapse. But as campaigning goes forward for parliamentary elections now slated for February 18, many similar opportunities for further destabilization will present themselves. A new report released by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, a terrorism watchdog group, shows that casualties from terrorist attacks have increased fivefold in the past two years. According to the report...