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Word: disarray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...know, like Sisyphus, that the struggle is useless. I can't concentrate under the present conditions: heavy, Dantean sighs abound; cell phones go off and everyone reaches into their pockets because they don't know their ringer style; bodies and bags are strewn over the floor in such disarray that you don't know which is which and the image reminds me of spaghetti and meatballs...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, | Title: A Day With Little Giving of Thanks | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...know is that Friday morning I got on a train with my three-and a-half year old and baggage, leaving my house in a total disarray and having hired somebody to come and pick up the papers and pack them," Ann Ginger says. "We went to stay with my brother in law's parents in New York whom I had never...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FBI Files Show HBS Forced Out Leftist Professor | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...desperate as the odds may appear, Fox still has plenty going for him. The corrupt vested interests that dominate the bureaucracy may be intimately entwined with the PRI, but the former ruling party is in disarray, and that gives the new president plenty of openings. To be sure, the PRI's power structure was built on an elaborate system of patronage, and being in opposition considerably diminishes the party's ability to deliver to its regional and local baronies and fiefdoms. That will allow Fox to bolster political support for his own programs by going directly to PRI governors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Ushers in a New Day | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...snap on first-and-goal on the Holy Cross 20-yard line late in the game, and the resulting Holy Cross drive put the game out of reach. Senior starting tailback Chuck Nwokocha left the game with a torn MCL, and Harvard's offense left the field in disarray...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Season in Review | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...point was made even more strongly in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty debacle. The Senate's rejection of a treaty signed by the President left in disarray U.S. efforts to curb nuclear proliferation around the world. And it allowed the likes of India and Pakistan to simply shrug and promise to consider adopting the treaty when Washington does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has America Become a Headless Superpower? | 11/14/2000 | See Source »

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