Word: mischiefism
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...actually occurred in Orlando, Fla., a few years ago. Only competent police work and a slip-up by the "bomber" revealed that he was in fact a 14-year-old high school honors student in science who was bent on nothing more than a spectacular hoax. What made the mischief so chilling was that nuclear blackmail by terrorist or criminal organizations is far from inconceivable. It is quite possible that a simple but devastating atomic weapon could now be made by one or more terrorists without advanced scientific and technical skills...
...render documents invisible to the luminescent eye of a Xerox machine. That seemingly suicidal quest was prompted by a growing clamor from publishers of copyrighted material who are angry about unlawful pirating of their works-and by Government nervousness about dissidents leaking xerographic evidence of federal mischief to the public (read Jack Anderson...
Papadopoulos lasted six years, until last November, when the stifled anguish and outrage of the Greek people finally exploded, ending his tyranny. On November 14, several people were convicted of "resistance to authority" and "public mischief" during a memorial service held ten days earlier for George Papandreou. That night 5000 students occupied the Polytechnic School in Athens. The next day by 6 p.m. about 40,000 demonstrators battled armed police with fists and planks torn from nearby construction sites...
...manager has disappeared and the help has been overhauled. In a place as ragged and permissive as Ann Arbor the affair was not one to attract notice, and no one knows who might have known Kimberly Rath in these last months. It is difficult to picture Kimberly, the daredevil mischief maker, the enthusaiast and extremist, the wild child living high and happy with a madness holed up in this middle-aged hideaway. Perhaps she needs this, a steady straight place, that could impose a predictable order on her days and restore a semblance of control to her life. Perhaps...
...there would be a "mixing" of Executive and judicial functions rather than a separation. "The Constitution mentions no Executive privilege, much less any absolute Executive privilege." If the President's claims were accepted, the Executive Branch might deny public access to all documents. "Support for this kind of mischief simply cannot be spun from incantation of the doctrine of separation of powers...