Word: wreaking
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...value to subscribe to print newspapers and sustain the industry. Ultimately, the power to save print newspapers lies with the readers, a power they ought to exercise.Transitioning away from print and toward the Internet will be a painful process, as the Tribune example indicates. However, it need not wreak permanent damage on the newspaper industry. The fourth estate can sustain itself, and even thrive, if it is able to use the resources of the Web to develop innovative new methods for advertising, content, and design. If the industry proves itself adaptable, the Tribune bankruptcy will be seen...
...evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists - or at least most of them - came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak their mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate. Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in 1947 as a homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims, and its relations with India since have been bedeviled by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state. Almost as many Muslims have remained in India as live in Pakistan, but Pakistan...
...evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists--at least most of them--came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate. Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in 1947 to be a homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims, and its relations with India have since been bedeviled by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state. Almost as many Muslims have remained in India as live in Pakistan, but Pakistan has had the worst...
...commodities use up limited reserves of natural resources and produce toxic byproducts, pollutants, and waste. Yet, as Robbins goes on to point out, fanatic consumerism receives the least attention of all the major causes for pollution and destruction for both political and economic reasons. Unchecked, commodity production continues to wreak havoc on the environment...
...will also help to suppress climate change. "The link between carbon-intensive activities and changes in the world's climate is now well established, and the consequences will be felt across the hemisphere," the authors write, noting that if "current human activity remains unchanged," the resulting "ecological shocks" could wreak havoc on Central America, the Caribbean, and the southeastern United States...