Word: havoc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frustrated prosecutors, not surprisingly, weren't willing to admit defeat. So to spare his family the emotional havoc of a retrial, al-Arian cut a deal. After months of negotiations, the Feds announced this week that the USF professor had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide services to the PIJ, such as immigration assistance to its members and lying about a former associate's affiliation with the terrorist group. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 1. But though guidelines call for 46 to 57 months in prison, al-Arian, who was born in Kuwait...
...Stopping the violence in Darfur would help. African tribal groups there took up arms against the government in Khartoum three years ago. The government responded by arming thousands of Arab janjaweed militias who have wreaked havoc on African soldiers and villagers alike, killed tens of thousands of people and forced 2 million from their homes. The U.S. describes the campaign as genocide, but for the past two years the world has been content to let a 7,000-strong force from the African Union police what the United Nations describes as one of the two worst humanitarian disasters...
...better centerfielders I’ve ever played with. Maybe he’ll play like Farkes did and not make it worse. But we don’t want to do anything that would jeopardize his future.” Salsgiver started in centerfield and continued to wreak havoc at the plate, going 2-for-5 with the solo shot. He leads the Crimson in batting (.394), on-base percentage (.475), and slugging (.621), and needs one home run to tie his personal best of four during the 2002 season. In Penn, the rest of Harvard?...
AFRICAN ELEPHANT Global warming might not only shrink the elephant's range within Africa but may also wreak havoc with the animal's love life. The relative abundance--or scarcity--of food affects the social hierarchy of the herd, which in turn can determine which animals get to breed...
...from burning fuels for energy--gasoline in cars or coal for electricity, for example. The U.S., with less than 5% of the world's population, produces one-quarter of all greenhouse gases BURNING FORESTS REDUCES OXYGEN AND INCREASES DROUGHT SPREADING THE PAIN Deforestation, through clear-cutting or burning, sows havoc far beyond the affected area. The fires release still more carbon into the atmosphere, fewer plants survive to convert CO2 into oxygen, and scorched soil absorbs more heat and retains less water, increasing droughts ?Plants take in CO2 ?Fires release carbon ?Less carbon absorbed ?Soil dries...