Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...producers, who talk a great deal about past exploitation and their future aspirations, might consider the implications for themselves of the havoc that their monopoly pricing is causing the rest of humankind. The oil consumers, who are the victims of that upheaval, would do well to ponder with more sympathy the OPEC countries' deeply felt desire for a larger share of the world's wealth. In this great global clash of interests, it is time for both sides to soften their anger and seek new ways to get along with each other. If sanity is to prevail, the guiding policy...
...small frames with marvelous detail. If he draws a 1955 Peugeot 403 or the old Geneva Airport, everything is exactly right. Occasionally he breaks out into a full-page picture recreating such things as a complete Persian miniature version of a 15th century battle with the Turks, or the havoc wreaked by an Alfa Romeo slaloming through a European square on market...
...many years ago, the solution would have been the brisk dispatch of gunboats to the Persian Gulf. For a few militarily insignificant states to wreak economic havoc on most of the world's major powers would have been unthinkable. Today it is the gunboats that are unthinkable or almost so, perhaps not so much from moral fastidiousness as from a fear in the West that the Soviets would not stand...
...bank of phones for use if the current "standby alert" for a Portland-area disaster goes "red." Two of the Pacific Northwest's largest users of electricity, Reynolds Metals in Oregon and Alcoa in Washington, are particularly threatened. A power cutoff of five hours would wreak such havoc that, Reynolds estimates, it would cost the company $7 million to start up its plant again...
This play walks a zigzag line between comedy and farce and often manages to be staggeringly funny. Alan Ayckbourn, a sly chronicler of British suburbia, gets three couples together on successive Christmas Eves in their respective kitchens and wreaks droll havoc on their status and character...