Word: disarray
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...certain fixation on the past took hold alongside a deep uneasiness with the present. Religious reform did not take off. The Muhammad Abdu project to renew Islam the way Martin Luther reformed Christianity ended at the turn of 19th century in disarray, opening the way to more extreme versions of the religion. Efforts to modernize the Arab language and bridge the gap between the spoken vernaculars and the written classical did not materialize. Public spheres--such as a free press, trade unions, civil societies--for debating matters related to the common good were not established. And most important, Muslims...
...this is not the first time students have left Brain Break in disarray...
...writer William Broad and investigations editor Stephen Engelberg--were prebooked on the TV publicity circuit. Over the past few weeks, they have been everywhere, retailing their horror stories of Soviet germ weapons programs, Iraqi anthrax stockpiles, Japanese nerve-gas attacks and an American biowarfare defense program in denial and disarray...
This is the worst time in the history of Boston sports, bar none. Never have Boston teams—across the board—been this futile. The Red Sox are the laughing stock of Major League Baseball. The entire team is in disarray. Jimy Williams is already gone, and Dan Duquette, John Harrington, Carl Everett and perhaps Joe Kerrigan are soon to follow. Pedro Martinez and Nomar Garciaparra have expressed their disgust with the team in recent days, only adding fuel to an already out-of-control fire...
...survived unscathed. Soon, however, it was no longer the sailing, but the man instructing me, that freaked me out. He had continually been dropping strange hints about the disarray in his life. For instance, he kept dropping cryptic remarks revealing that he was in a precarious position at work. Just after we crashed, we were discussing the carelessness of the other boat—clearly it was their fault, not ours. All of a sudden he turns to me and says, “I probably shouldn’t be telling you this, since you’re stuck...