Word: wreak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, deals with tens of thousand of gallons of only a few hazardous materials. "But in a health laboratory," he continues, "you have an infinite variety but in smaller amounts." Industries, moreover, carefully control the number of people exposed to hazardous materials. The EPA's required paperwork alone might wreak havoc; "where you've got a huge number of people encountering toxic or carcinogenic substances, record-keeping problems are magnified," says Coddington. Harvard's government relations office is lobbying to make the rules more flexible. An EPA spokesman says the agency is now responding to institutional comments on its proposals...
...clears each year, though, the added costs of questions, mailings and even Xerox copies shouldn't force them out of business. ETS's real fear may be that scrutiny will be to standardized tests as hurricanes are to the Dominican Republic. Public availability of the tests may well wreak havoc on their reputation for accuracy, exposing biases and inadequacies...
...bumptiously philandering husband and so distraught over his affair with his secretary that she follows the woman to the spa. There the mystery writer plots, as neatly as she would one of her novels, a crime that will 1) put her out of her romantic misery and 2) wreak suitable vengeance on her husband and his mistress. This is as plausible as any other explanation of Christie's disappearance, though no more persuasive than any other that might be dreamed up by a clever person confronting the puzzle. What is persuasive, or at least highly appealing, is the tentative...
...ready to pay for his sins. Berkowitz seemed instead to realize that he was about to become the biggest media sensation of a hot and stickily depressing summer--John Travolta with a large-caliber revolver, headed straight for that pantheon Americans have reserved for those with the balls to wreak sudden death on a large scale. Perhaps he was caught, perhaps he would--eventually--have to pay. But before that, Berkowitz knew, he could sit back and flash his madman's smirk, while helping lots of other people to collect...
...first-rate act of literary impersonation. Caine introduces convincing versions of Lockwood and Nelly Dean and, at some risk, a long autobiographical letter written by Heathcliff himself. Bereft because he knows Catherine will never marry him, the ferocious young man flees the Heights with a vague plan to wreak vengeance on the world. No sooner does he reach London than he joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury Square. The work invigorates him: "I longed to cross the square and start on Bedford House, then begin elsewhere, until I had demolished every great house in London; after which...