Word: mischiefism
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Unfortunately, the lifting of the nuclear threat in the 1990s will continue to create opportunities for mischief among some nationalist ideologues and local despots. In the decades ahead, the major powers will ignore most petty tyrants and the brutal but small-bore wars that they foment -- unless they seriously endanger their neighbors or threaten their own people with genocide. When that occurs, the United Nations will, in most cases, authorize joint armed intervention. When it does not, the U.S. and other states that share its views will act on their...
...Health of telephone workers at U.S. West Communications found that 111 out of 518 employees who used computers had RSI. The most revealing discovery was that all the sufferers reported high levels of psychological strain, such as job insecurity and pressures to work fast. Psychological stress probably does its mischief by creating muscle tension, which reduces blood flow to hard-working muscles and tendons; without enough oxygen, these tissues become fatigued and prone to injury...
...made politics an infinitely more difficult -- and morally tenuous -- endeavor. It is no longer sufficient for candidates to say they are Democrats or Republicans, explain their views on the issues and let the voters decide. Campaigns now consist of offending as few people as possible, so the possibilities for mischief and misunderstandings are endless...
...bickered constantly over airspace, territorial waters and the continental shelf, sometimes coming to the brink of war. Both long ago became adept at playing Moscow and Washington against each other: the Kremlin used the Cyprus imbroglio to try to weaken the Western alliance and to make all kinds of mischief in the eastern Mediterranean, from conducting espionage to sponsoring terrorism...
...care centers provide another setting that amplifies microbial mischief. & In 1989, for instance, eight children in a center near Cleveland, Ohio, came down with chronic middle-ear infections caused by the same antibiotic- resistant strain of pneumococcus. Subsequent throat swabs revealed that 50 of the 250 children enrolled at the center had been infected but had not yet shown symptoms. Such outbreaks could have serious consequences: recurrent middle-ear infections can impair hearing, and pneumococcus can also cause meningitis and bacteremia, an infection of the blood that may spread to the joints, heart and even the brain. In the Third...