Word: havoc
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Well, it seems to us, dear friend, that your query reflects an insufficient appreciation of the natural forces surrounding your very existence, of the powers greater than thou. The weather is, in fact, more binding than the Core, and is able to wreak more havoc on students' lives than the most bicycle-weary Cantabrigian motorist. In short, the weather determines the whether...
...behalf of the Israeli government. Such de facto renegation of signed treaties projects an image of Israel as a country which lacks credibility. Second is the idea that at the end of the 20th century, territorial claims can be made based on ancient religious texts. Imagine the havoc that would wreck Europe, or for that matter most of our world, if such a notion were adopted...
People who work with the epidemic fear that upbeat news coverage is playing havoc with a decade of AIDS education. Doctors complain about patients who think that because their viral load is undetectable, the virus must be gone from their bodies. Wrong. AIDS counselors talk about teens who think that science has discovered a morning-after pill to undo last night's unsafe doings. It hasn't. And everybody is concerned that a false message will go out that AIDS has been defeated. With that, they figure, will come a return to the '70s, the whole goatish and unbuckled funfest...
...biggest contribution, however, may have been introducing revenue-sharing in pro football 30 years before it created havoc in other sports. Doing so allowed teams in minor markets like Green Bay to equally share TV revenues -- the biggest part of the NFL pie -- with teams in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...global pretensions, Concert's first gig will be the $100 billion local phone network in the U.S. Hello, Baby Bells. Competition calling. The combination of MCI's hell-bent-for-market-share moxie and BT's muscle--Concert will have a cash flow of $12 billion--could wreak havoc in local markets, and that could be good news for anyone with a dial tone...