Word: havoc
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...protest, farmers throughout the country have been creating havoc. On the major highway to Spain, a thousand fruit growers dumped tons of pears onto the roadway, creating a twelve-mile traffic jam. In Le Havre, Norman peasants stopped dockers from unloading beef from an Argentine ship and, in a variation of the old Boston Tea Party, threw tons of the meat into the Channel. In other areas farmers hung dead chickens in front of local officials' homes, let pigs and cattle loose in village streets, and even halted the sacrosanct Tour de France bicycle race by covering the road...
...security, and greater union jurisdiction over the new equipment than the publishers are offering. To add bite to these demands, Powers aimed a "coordinated action" at the Daily News in mid-April. Printers were ordered to work at different speeds: "normal, slow and very slow." This tactic played havoc with News deadlines, prevented the publishing of more than 700 ad pages in 19 days, and cost the paper some $2 million in lost revenue. News officials responded with an ultimatum: either the printers tighten up by May 6 or the slack would be handled by automation. When the publishers made...
...taconite is extracted, and the wastes, or "tailings," are dumped into the water. Any time that Reserve is attacked for polluting the lake-and the attacks have been continuous since 1967-it says that it might have to close the plant if ordered to stop. That would wreak economic havoc, since the company employs 3,100 workers in the area, or at least 90% of the local work force. But in February 1972, the U.S. Justice Department decided to sue for a cleanup anyway. The trial began last summer...
This February, the crowds almost got out of hand. Control became an issue when independent councilor Thomas W. Danehy proposed abolition of the rent control board, the administrative arm of the control law. Danehy aimed merely to cause havoc on the council in order to break up the coalition between four liberals and two of the council's five independents that made independent Walter J. Sullivan mayor in February...
...conception of the film itself. This general chaos surfaces in the first few minutes of Counterpoint and rules with an iron hand for the duration of the film. Both of Brown's worlds--the order and the chaos--are presented with the same frenzied, confused montage which wreaks havoc on the plot. Even the masters of quick-cutting, whom Brown openly imitates, structure their films around sequential thought, building their tricks atop a plot that conveys at least a remote sense of plot or development. Tenuous visual connections alone aren't enough to grab an audience...