Word: havoc
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Another key component of the executive program is to bridge scientific innovation and practical implementation and to find ways to manage breakthrough ideas, or platforms, which “cause havoc with companies,” Bowen said...
...those unfamiliar with MIT’s endearingly dorky cyber-lingo, the three students were not hacking in the traditional sense—utilizing advanced computing skills to maliciously invade Faculty Club hard drives and wreak havoc. Rather, the term “hack” at MIT refers to any sly, intricately planned prank committed by a group of students on campus; this particular group of students were caught after slinking around the Faculty Room and setting off an alarm. Although it is unclear exactly what the students intended to accomplish, they apparently pried off a wall panel...
...drivers and workers rights' advocates at NyayaBhoomi say the real crooks are the city officials. "Politicians have left no stone unturned to portray auto rickshaw drivers as dishonest, cheats and rude. The reality, however, is that they are the victims of the same political games that have played havoc with the entire public transport system of Delhi," reports NyayaBhoomi's website. "There are scores of other problems which the politicians do not want to address. The result is that in spite of cheating you, most auto drivers live in slums or resettlement colonies. Their children are forced into child labor...
...image, because it isn’t simply a matter of picking out a different color shirt—it sometimes counters not only what is deeply cultural, but also natural. In the case of hair, the universally-accepted bob often emerges from chemical and thermal processes that wreak havoc on the manes of many...
...BlackBerry can wreak such havoc upon the lives of businessmen that it is nicknamed after a deadly street drug, how will it affect impressionable undergraduates? It certainly won’t damage our sex lives as much as weekend, take-home exams already do. Nor is it liable to induce ADD in a generation already accustomed to simultaneously writing papers and posts to instant messenger. The main danger of the PDA’s campus invasion is the potential for it to become a must-have luxury item amongst students, proving yet again how unbearably wonkish and overly serious Harvard?...