Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...level bully pulpit. But Bennett left his drug-war ) post so meekly and with such meager results that some wondered if the general had gone AWOL. Bennett then backed off from his acceptance of a job as head of the Republican National Committee, throwing the party into even greater disarray...
That afternoon Thatcher gave one more bravura performance -- perhaps her last -- in rallying the numbed Tories against a motion of no confidence proposed by Labour leader Neil Kinnock, who had felt obliged to respond to the spectacular disarray in the Conservative camp. In an emotion-charged atmosphere, the Prime Minister lit into Kinnock with such freewheeling enthusiasm that she brought Tory M.P.s to their feet cheering; others had tears in their eyes...
...that is so, the European economy appears much sturdier than it was during the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, when the E.C. suffered disarray. Moreover, although a severe U.S. recession would not leave Europe unscathed, the transatlantic economies are no longer so closely tied...
...Such disarray hurts children from all classes; wealth may in fact make it harder for some children to cope. Says Hal Klor, a guidance counselor at Chicago's Lincoln Park High School: "The kids born into a project, they handle it. But the middle-class kids. All of a sudden -- a divorce, loss of job, status. Boom. Depression...
...free-market price for oil is something like $10 per bbl. That is what it sank to in 1986, when OPEC was in total disarray. At the last OPEC meeting, in July, production quotas were assigned to achieve a price of $21. That's what our "friends" the "moderates" wanted. Saddam wanted $25. The difference between $10 oil and $21 oil means, for the U.S., an extra $33 billion a year for oil imports. That doesn't even count an equal sum paid to domestic producers, or the dampening effect on the economy...