Word: wreaking
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...Nothing but bad news - and much worse to come - for the world's fourth most-populous country. The ineffectual presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri will wreak ever greater damage as the good will that marked her assumption of office evaporates. Expect the accelerating collapse of the country's finances and civil administration, soaring lawlessness and vigilantism in cities, and chaos and bloodshed in the remoter provinces. Ethnic hatreds and independence movements will push the military into bloody reprisals. Indonesia looks headed for implosion, though in agonizing slow motion...
...potato problem. It's also a problem with white bread, bagels and most white rice. But couch potatoes don't have to give up their spuds altogether, as long as they eat them in moderation. Or they could switch to sweet potatoes and yams, which metabolize less rapidly and wreak less havoc with blood sugar...
Bucknell did not have a player on its roster who could match up with Cserny in the paint, and Delaney-Smith expects that her star freshman should continue to wreak havoc on opponents when the Ivy season begins. Cserny had three blocks and six steals in the game on the defensive end, both career highs...
...Lindbergh Palace, his home for the past 20 years, as well as catching wind of his wife’s upcoming nuptials, Royal decides to reconcile with his family by feigning his impending death. With his manservant Pagoda (Kumar Pallana) at his side, he proceeds to wreak the necessary havoc to disrupt his family’s otherwise ignoble states...
This weekend as scores of goblins, ghouls, Russian prostitutes and other creatures of the night spilled out onto the streets of Harvard Square to wreak havoc in celebration of Halloween, I was reminded of the need we have to reinvent ourselves. For one night, we donned masks, capes and make-up to forget ourselves momentarily, indulging the secret passions of our collective, and often invisible...