Word: havoc
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...Green Revolution that vastly multiplied agricultural output in underdeveloped countries. But just as the Green Revolution sparked concerns about its reliance on pesticides and chemical fertilizers, so has the blue revolution provoked a rebellion among scientists and environmentalists who fear that the industry, if left unregulated, could wreak havoc in oceans and estuaries. "We are not against aquaculture," says Langer, "but we are against the way it is being done...
...hope to wreak havoc with our defense,” Delaney-Smith said. “I hope to go 40 minutes of playing up on the ball and seeing what they can do. So that’s what teams have done to us, and that’s why I’ve waited ten years to be able to do that to other teams...
Investigators with the Australian Federal Police, assisting local Indonesian authorities, think there were three bombs in Bali synchronized to wreak maximum havoc. The first explosion--quite small--was inside Paddy's Irish Bar, a popular watering hole. A few seconds later, a slightly more powerful bomb exploded in front of the Sari Club. Then, as terrified customers poured into the street from the bars, came the real thing; a Mitsubishi L300 minivan had pulled up to the sidewalk, packed with C4 high explosive and ammonium nitrate--around the world, the car bomber's favorite recipe. The van blew up. Survivors...
...Washington gunman continues to snipe away; he's such a shadowy figure that even the few eyewitnesses to his murders have been so completely unable to reach any kind of consensus about he looks like that police would not release a sketch. The culprits in all these acts wreak havoc only to vanish...
...water all over the world, tend to become concentrated in animals' fatty tissues. Seals, which are the bears' main source of food, are essentially blobs of blubber with flippers attached. And because PCBs are thought to mimic estrogen, some experts fear that even low-level exposure could wreak havoc with a bear's reproductive system...