Word: havoc
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...unruly children. In the opening sequence, the children, led by the eldest boy (Simon Brown, the cute kid from “Love Actually”) break into the kitchen, tie the screaming cook (Imelda Staunton, “Vera Drake”) to the table, and wreak utter havoc. Nanny McPhee then mysteriously shows up at their door and uses her magic to whip the brats into shape. When the children refuse to get up in the morning, claiming they have the measles, Nanny McPhee actually gives the children measles for the day. Lesson learned—with Nanny...
...Those extra temptations?which the communists largely eradicated after taking power in 1949?have wreaked havoc on marriages, with 1.6 million Chinese couples divorcing in 2004, a 21% rise from the year before, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. "Before in society, we had a sense of right and wrong," says the China Sexology Association's Hu. "Now, we can do whatever we want. But do we have any moral standards left...
...Union speech laced with references to terrorism, Bush asked Congress for nearly $6 billion to fund Project BioShield, a program he said would "quickly make available effective vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola and plague." That sounded like a good idea, considering the havoc wrought by the anthrax mailings of 2001, which killed five people and set off a near panic for treatment. So Congress anted up. Eighteen months later, Bush signed BioShield into law. The measure set aside $5.6 billion for drug companies, offered the promise of a guaranteed and speedy contract--even an opportunity...
...spend any money, you could end up paying in other ways. That is, by downloading the freebies, you could be opening the door to a host of other things-extra programs bundled in with that candy-cane cursor or animated elf, that, if left unchecked, are likely to wreak havoc on your computer and kill your celebratory mood...
...Retaliation came just hours later, as hundreds of youths of Middle Eastern descent took to the streets with baseball bats and other weapons to wreak havoc and ignite fear in neighboring suburbs. Mainly, they smashed shop windows and car windscreens, though a 23-year-old man was stabbed, while another was beaten up while taking out the garbage. Last week, young men set alight or otherwise attacked several churches in south-western Sydney. Arrests reached the dozens, but the violence abated as police numbers swelled in trouble spots and community leaders pleaded for calm. Still, with new text messages rallying...