Word: wreak
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...Saddam is explicitly hostile to the U.S. and its interests. If he acquires a nuclear weapon on top of his hoarded biological and chemical ones, he will, according to Bush, wreak catastrophic harm on his enemies, which means the U.S. The ultimate method, said Bush, would be for Saddam to hand off to a terrorist network "one vial, one canister, one crate" of his deadly weapons "secretly and without fingerprints" to "bring a day of horror like none we have ever known...
...search for a still-unknown quantity of ricin somewhere in London, fears have increased that the long-dreaded terror attack on the city may be drawing nearer. And experts agree that large numbers of casualties are not needed to meet the terrorists' twisted goals. The spiraling fear factor can wreak havoc as well...
...Green Revolution that vastly multiplied agricultural output in underdeveloped countries. But just as the Green Revolution sparked concerns about its reliance on pesticides and chemical fertilizers, so has the blue revolution provoked a rebellion among scientists and environmentalists who fear that the industry, if left unregulated, could wreak havoc in oceans and estuaries. "We are not against aquaculture," says Langer, "but we are against the way it is being done...
...hope to wreak havoc with our defense,” Delaney-Smith said. “I hope to go 40 minutes of playing up on the ball and seeing what they can do. So that’s what teams have done to us, and that’s why I’ve waited ten years to be able to do that to other teams...
Investigators with the Australian Federal Police, assisting local Indonesian authorities, think there were three bombs in Bali synchronized to wreak maximum havoc. The first explosion--quite small--was inside Paddy's Irish Bar, a popular watering hole. A few seconds later, a slightly more powerful bomb exploded in front of the Sari Club. Then, as terrified customers poured into the street from the bars, came the real thing; a Mitsubishi L300 minivan had pulled up to the sidewalk, packed with C4 high explosive and ammonium nitrate--around the world, the car bomber's favorite recipe. The van blew up. Survivors...