Word: havoc
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...this point, the key for McVeigh is planting the idea that the FBI totally overlooked a mass murderer or two or three. By suggesting such a foul-up, McVeigh can accomplish what he set out to do in the first place: Wreak psychological havoc on the establishment...
...Drug war critics in Latin America complain that while the increasingly militarized nature of drug interdiction efforts are unlikely to resolve the problem of drug abuse in the U.S., it does wreak havoc with democracy in the region. In Colombia, for example, narco-traffickers have found that the best way to protect their investment from interdiction is to enlist the support of either leftist guerrillas or rightist paramilitaries, providing the gunmen with the revenues to keep their war going in perpetuity. And just as much as the U.S. government uses economic aid to enlist the support of Latin American governments...
...declared itself opposed to armed struggle and favors some form of autonomy within Indonesia. Jakarta has raised a force of several hundred Acehnese under the MP-GAM banner, paying them to operate alongside the security forces? a setup very reminiscent of the militias that wreaked such havoc in East Timor...
...Peyramaure, a painful test of strength as the two balance each other’s bodies while, in stereotypical French fashion, infuse the act with a sexy je ne sais quoi. In another particularly creative act that both kids and adults will find amusing, Gordoon, Orville and company reek havoc at the “Department of Sanitation” with several rolls of toilet paper, blowers and special lighting...
Even where green fervor is of a paler shade, corporations are viewing the potential for global regulation as a business risk they need to consider. Witness Claiborne Deming, Murphy's CEO, who doesn't see the science of global warming as solid enough yet to cry havoc. But Deming hears shareholders clamoring and the bureaucrats buzzing. Someone may ask his company to put more than a quarter in that box when it wants to exhale more than its allotted amount...