Word: havoc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ tenure, when Harvard began considering its ambitious Allston campus expansion. With interest rates favorably low and little inflation on the horizon, the University decided to use the swaps to lock in the rates. But instead, interest continued to decline, wreaking havoc on the swaps, which Forbes branded “The Summers Swap.”As of October, the University would have had to pay $571 million to terminate its interest rate swap portfolio. The figure represents a stark decrease from the $330 million Harvard would have...
...nation's eyes. "Imagine someone about to begin physical therapy following a stroke [and] suddenly contracting a debilitating secondary illness," researchers at the Project for Excellence in Journalism write about the news media's long-overdue embrace of the Internet in 2008, just as a global recession began wreaking havoc on the industry's biggest advertisers. "This is the sixth edition of our annual report," the authors begin. "It is also the bleakest." From magazines and newspapers to local television and radio to the ethnic and alternative presses, it seems that all media took a hit last year, and some...
...legislature's 275 seats, says it doesn't trust the Shi'ite-led government and wants all of the detainees immediately released, even "the minority" they acknowledge might be al-Qaeda members. "Even if you released an al-Qaeda emir [leader], he won't be able to wreak havoc in the same way he did three years ago," says Omar Almashhadani, a spokesman for the Front, citing improvements in the Iraqi security forces and their intelligence gathering capabilities. "The problem," he adds, "is that some detainees are going to be transferred from a prison that, to a certain degree, respects...
...Eule had an inside track on the turmoil that Match Day can cause in a relationship: his girlfriend Stephanie was herself about to embark upon the long journey to becoming a surgeon. Eule trains his eye on his relationship (and that of two other couples); his book details the havoc that the medical field can wreck on family lives. ("See the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs...
...demographic shift will put enormous strain on corporate Japan, which is running out of workers - something that could be ameliorated by substantial immigration if Japan's leaders were bold enough (none has been) to prepare a traditionally closed society to open itself up. And an aging society will play havoc with demand for medical services and pensions. (Read "Chinese Immigrants Chase the Japanese Dream...