Word: havoc
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Having wreaked havoc in the Caribbean -- especially in Haiti, where its torrential rains, flooding and mud slides caused more than 500 deaths -- Tropical Storm Gordon swept across Florida, devastating some of the state's prime winter farmland and killing six people, before heading out into the Atlantic, where, intensifying into Hurricane Gordon, it pounded the North Carolina coast...
...course, the pre-game jitters wreaked some havoc...
...giant leaks compounded the havoc in a part of Texas that had already been declared a disaster area. Early last week, a massive storm front that parked itself over Southeast Texas began washing the region away. In some places, rivers prowled nine miles from their banks, marauding through neighborhoods that had never seen flooding before. Water poured over earthen levees, bubbled up through storm cellars and then broke into at least 6,000 residences...
Unsurprisingly, their offspring Thor is emotionally fucked. He is a troublemaker who is prone to hiding in rooms and creating havoc. Miller flails himself about the stage with great delight. His jarring screams keep the crazy pace going even when there's a dry point in the script...
Derivatives are causing all this havoc because they have swiftly become a linchpin of global commerce and the world's financial system. Companies regularly use a form of derivatives called swaps to protect against the risk of sudden changes in exchange rates, commodities prices or other costs when they trade overseas or build plants abroad. Like all derivatives, they function, essentially, as bets on the direction of particular markets. So coveted is such insurance that the total face amount -- or "notional value" -- of swaps and similar contracts has soared to an astronomical $11 trillion, up from $5.1 trillion since...