Word: wreak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hyperbole? Not at all. Writing in the July issue of Natural History, Churcher and Lawton estimate that Britain's 5 million house cats wreak an annual toll of some 70 million animals and birds...
...Prince William Sound, sent in a team of high-level officials, including Environmental Protection Agency administrator William Reilly, Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan and several White House advisers. While there was no chance the calamity would match the worst-in-history damage in Alaska, the Rhode Island spill could still wreak environmental havoc. The ship was loaded with a relatively light fuel that will break up much faster than the 11 million gal. of gooey crude that oozed out of the Exxon Valdez. However, the fuel is highly toxic and could pose a threat to the wildlife in Narragansett...
...feeling is mutual; many West Germans suspect that any war would wreak nuclear devastation on West German territory if the U.S. fired the short-range missiles, rather than risking Soviet retaliation against American cities by launching long-range nukes against targets inside the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, there is a growing belief that some kind of compromise will be found in time to permit a show of unity at a NATO summit meeting in Brussels May 29-30. The "early" negotiations the West Germans want could be put off until next year or even later; Bonn might also agree to some...
...soft, easily eroded limestone, already had a 2,000-year history of deterioration and attempted repairs. But the ravages of time pale next to the destruction wrought by man. The burgeoning Egyptian population, which today tops 53 million, has combined with the hordes of tourists arriving each year to wreak more havoc in the past few decades than the effects of thousands of years of erosion...
...March, Peter L. Malkin '55, one of thisyear's official Overseers candidates, wrote aletter to some alumni expressing concern that the"dissident" candidates would "wreak havoc" withthe Board...