Word: wreaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also said that America has a strong interest in not seeing Israel pressed to the wall. "Israel could militarily wreak havoc on the entire Middle East...
...undergraduates besieged the Yard to attend the Gabriellesque shriek. None was forthcoming, and perched on a Wigglesworth stoop, Young smiled and grunted his satisfaction. By next week, however, Young's plan was torpedoed by hordes of freshman imitators who clambered up among the gargoyles at the appointed hour, to wreak their own vocal havoc. Another crisis was at hand, as the oral abominations of the mimics were now desolating the Yard and the tell-tale grade-point average was dipping again. On a cold night, again at 3:30 a.m., Young once more confronted the erstwhile howler and appealed...
...taconite is extracted, and the wastes, or "tailings," are dumped into the water. Any time that Reserve is attacked for polluting the lake-and the attacks have been continuous since 1967-it says that it might have to close the plant if ordered to stop. That would wreak economic havoc, since the company employs 3,100 workers in the area, or at least 90% of the local work force. But in February 1972, the U.S. Justice Department decided to sue for a cleanup anyway. The trial began last summer...
...crops and prospects for an even bigger output this year. One reason: foreign demand for U.S. farm goods remains extremely high because supplies of wheat and other items are still tight worldwide. The 1973 inflation in wheat, corn and soybeans showed how much havoc heavy export demand can wreak on U.S. prices. In addition, all the ups and downs of controls last year caused cattlemen and hog raisers to limit production sharply. That means that meat prices will stay high or even rise in the months immediately ahead because the number of steers and hogs reaching market will not increase...
...stake in the decision are not only the fortunes of individual companies and their workers but the extent of the damage that the fuel shortage will wreak on the whole economy; an ill-conceived allocation scheme could badly magnify it. Explains Anne Carter, a Brandeis University economist: "Allocation is not even a question of fairness, although the consumer thinks of it that way. Allocation has to be balanced to provide for balanced production." In other words, fuel will have to be denied primarily to those industries least likely to have a significant impact on other industries and thus least likely...