Word: disruptable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Earlier this spring when Radcliffe administrators announced plans to renovate Cronkhite, they were met with a barrage of hostilities and passionate monologues from current residents of Cronkhite. Most residents opposed the plan, saying the academic and residential community of Cronkhite was too special to disrupt...
...fatter now, but another study found that 46% of men of normal weight think about their appearance "all the time" or "frequently." And some men--probably hundreds of thousands, if you extrapolate from small surveys--say they have passed up job and even romantic opportunities because they refuse to disrupt workouts or dine on restaurant food. In other words, an increasing number of men would rather look brawny for their girlfriends than have sex with them...
...controversy also threatens to disrupt a major international AIDS conference to be held in South Africa in July, with a growing number of key experts threatening to stay away if Mbeki's government insists on indulging the views of dissident academics whose views were debated and discounted a decade ago in the U.S. To the consternation of South Africa's own medical and AIDS-activist community, Mbeki has invited Berkeley molecular biologist Peter Duesberg and his colleague David Resnick - who maintain that the HIV virus is harmless and not the cause of AIDS - to serve on a panel advising...
...only are schools forced to sacrifice themselves to MCAS preparation, the actual test-taking itself is an absurdly long 16-hour process, and when the testing schedule is spread out, the MCAS can disrupt school schedules for as long as three weeks...
...this one out (instead focusing on lobbying the Clinton administration against China's entry into the WTO), which meant there are far fewer protesters in the streets. And many of the attendees in Seattle from Third World countries agreed with some of the protesters' points, making it easier to disrupt the meeting there. All of which means the police action could be a bit of overkill. Shutting down the staging area looked petty, and it's not a tremendously effective tactic against a protesting organization with few, if any, recognizable leaders and a diffuse management structure. Most of this organization...