Word: interruptive
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Before 1973, no other global industry had ever been so perfectly integrated, meaning that the companies controlled their product from oil well to gasoline tank. But the rise of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the oil embargoes of the 1970s began to interrupt that arrangement. Newly confident Third World governments abrogated or phased out the concessions under which Western oil companies had pumped oil on their territory. The national oil companies, which controlled 75% of the world's crude output, insisted on higher prices that cut into the profit margins of Western companies. The once cozy world...
...seek justice for those who pay for his services and continue to turn out best-selling fiction about the frailties of the law? Turow does not see the question as especially difficult: "In functional terms, the law practice always comes first. When my clients call, I can interrupt my writing...
...Mazowiecki, once a political prisoner, promised an overhaul of Communist institutions in an eloquent speech that he was forced to interrupt for 45 minutes because of exhaustion...
...started being silent at the onset of these changes, it might have been surprising. But I started in 1983, before there was even any suggestion of these changes. Was I going to interrupt my work and start acting as a political commentator? I didn't want to do that. I had to finish my work. I am over 70 years old, and age is pressing...
...series of abrupt changes in volume. But just when everything is going well, Jackson screws up the chorus, bigtime in that it destroys the mood of everything that precedes it. The entire listening experience is marred by the constant fear that the chorus is going to come back and interrupt the rest of the song...