Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gain a new dimension of tension. People studiously avoid the topic that carries weight for the next three years of our lives. Tears flow freely. Friendships seem to go up in flames. The little white lies my mother swore by backfire dramatically. Being blunt is the only option; then havoc breaks loose. We have been reduced to eighth grad--people stop talking to each other, talk behind each other's backs, scheming busily...
...thing that Brown does quite well is they get out into the passing lanes better than any other team," Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. "They can create havoc with their defense...
...response to recent break-ins at Matthews Hall, the Harvard University Police Department has announced that it will install combination locks on the doors of Matthews bathrooms, apparently to prevent thugs from hiding in the lavatories and then emerging at night to wreak havoc on unsuspecting first-years...
...virus, dutifully taking blood samples every few months) but in the hard-to-reach lymph nodes. Now scientists realize that there is a window of opportunity, and a fairly large one at that, to attack the virus while it is still hiding, before it has started to wreak havoc on the body's natural defenses...
...moment TennCare was law, its opponents had much to grouse about. The speed of the transition from a fee-for-service Medicaid plan to the new system, in which the state takes $2.9 billion in federal and state funds and contracts with 12 privately run managed-care organizations, wreaked havoc on doctors and patients alike. The chaos that even a small private business often undergoes when switching medical plans was multiplied a thousand-fold. Many patients did not know which managed-care group they had been assigned to, and in the early days it could take hours to get through...