And as much as it applauds the players' fighting spirit, it delivers an unspoken critique of rampant sports mania and an obsession with winning that can wreak personal havoc off the playing field.
Klíma's later fiction includes Čekání na tmu, čekání na světlo (1993; Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light), about a Czech cameraman floundering in the prosperity that follows oppression; and Ani svatí, ani andělé (2001; No Saints or Angels), about cultural and personal havoc in contemporary Prague.
Yet by mentioning his mother-in-law, Mr. Bartlett said, the president underscores that he is sympathetic to the personal and financial havoc brought on by Enron's collapse.
In 1960 Robson directed From the Terrace, an adaptation of John O'Hara's novel about an businessman (Paul Newman) whose career ambitions wreak havoc on his personal life; Joanne Woodward and Myrna Loy also starred in the film.
But it may not be long, he added, before similar programs are unleashed as replicating programs, wreaking much more havoc on personal digital assistants.
Most of the county clerks said they would finish the job by early next week, although they said the task was playing havoc with the personal lives of their employees.
Her advocacy of the financial interests of ordinary, middle-class Americans, and her understanding of the situation in which they found themselves even before the financial crisis wreaked further havoc on their personal balance sheets, catapulted her to political stardom, even as it won her a host of enemies among bankers.
Low cost personal computers may be causing havoc on the bottom line equipment makers, but things remain as rosy as ever in the portable computer market.
Staying awake all night can also play havoc with your personal life, as Haswell discovered on a dinner date the evening after he had pulled an all-nighter as a junior lawyer.
Cheap sub-$500 personal computers might be creating havoc on the bottom lines of PC boxmakers like Compaq Computer cpq and Dell Computer dell, but there is one little chip company that is happy to see the trend gain momentum: Power Integrations powi.
Taylor, who is not Amish, found himself more than $130,000 in debt to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service a few years ago and trying to pay it back wreaked havoc on his personal and professional life.
