Word: wreaking
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...sorry state of the road surface. The obvious culprits in this devastation are the trucks. Despite the stickers boasting of the 4,000 plus dollars they pay each year in road taxes, they have never paid, and barring some radical transformation, will probably never pay for the havoc they wreak on highways. At the present time, trucks over 75,000 lbs pay only 45 percent of the costs they incur, and the interstates are deteriorating at a rate 50 percent greater than anticipated due to huge increases in truck volume and weight. A study done by the Illinois Department...
...society ... has no claims to the benefits of that society," as Maj. Gen. Thomas K. Turnage, the SSS' director, has said. Characteristically, he and other Administration officials fail to focus on the practical effects of such a simple theoretical equation. Chief among these is the havoc it will wreak on educational choice, especially if some colleges follow through on hinted offers and provide their own aid to students rendered ineligible for federal assistance. While schools that do so--one that has come forward is Swarthmore--are to be lauded, a highly unfair situation will result if, for non-registrants, applying...
...could top supply by as much as nine million barrels per day, the IEA report concludes. It is not difficult to imagine the resulting escalation of international tension as countries scramble to obtain their energy needs. Nor is it hard to foresee the internal chaos another oil shortage will wreak on an unprepared nation. Soon the energy scare of the 70s may seem a mild prologue to the real crisis...
NEWSPAPERS ENCOUNTER the problem all the time. Print an article exposing dissension in a group, or casting aspersions on some noble cause, and complaints will pour in. People worry about the press's responsibility to exercise its power with delicacy, the ability of the printed word to wreak havoc in people's lives, the need for social restraints to balance writers' unassailable freedom to publish whatever they want. It's rare, however, that the book industry faces such a conundrum, and rarer still that authorities try to crack down on book publishers. Freedom-of-the-press buffs, then, will...
...contrast, the proposed cuts in the Graduate Student Loan program (GSL) would "wreak havoc" at the school. Those cuts, to be implemented mostly by raising the interest rates for students and removing certain benefits to lenders, "would have killed the Ed School," Ylvisaker declares. Over 50 percent of the student body receives GSL's and this spring student body receives GSL's and this spring student leaders organized a letter writing campaign to protest the cuts. Their objections represent the widespread Cortage of students and parents" across party lines, says Keppel, who this March testified before Congress against cutting...