" Noting that one of the programs being cut monitors chemicals known as endocrine disrupters, she said, "Not having the latest science on endocrine disrupters will make more people sick.
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But, but, but: There are advantages for the disrupters, too.
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Headlines Big banks embrace fintech to exploit disrupters' expertise on.ft.
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Disrupters have muscled in on some parts of this chain.
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And to the positive disrupters ready to dent the universe.
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As disrupters, they would be a match, Ms. Kanai suggested.
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The "New Work" disrupters have only included free dry cleaning.
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That is what disrupters do: deliberately look to do things differently.
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TV's weekly "Disrupters, Innovators, Job Creators" series presented by Zip Recruiter.
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They are not bold disrupters but are ideologically out of touch.
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The crowd turned angry, jostling and pushing and jeering the disrupters.
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They have been the great aviation disrupters of the 21st century.
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But we only ever hear about the disrupters that are successful.
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But the two major disrupters are Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods.
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Edward Tse, of Gao Feng, a consultancy, calls these firms "China's disrupters".
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The vast majority of protesters demanding climate action are not radical disrupters.
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But cats are not the only diamond disrupters in the animal kingdom.
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Digital disrupters would sap incumbent firms' confidence to invest while spending little themselves.
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Disrupters don't fix what's broken because they don't innovate from inside the system.
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Alliances are built to be durable and to survive individual leaders and disrupters.
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Other dietary sleep disrupters include alcohol and rich meals too close to bedtime.
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It sounds lofty, but disrupters have changed the nature of the internet before.
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" These disrupters do not "share rumors because they believe them to be true.
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But as Mr. Genachowski noted, as the disrupters grow, the dynamic often shifts.
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That's the model for classic disrupters, like Southwest Airlines, MP3s or Japanese carmakers.
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Would-be hecklers and game-disrupters listen up ... THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE.
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"The next part of the arc is that disrupters become very successful and in some ways turn into incumbents, and then you see two things — battles between incumbents and other incumbents, and a next generation of disrupters tackling incumbents," he said.
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Sopnendu Mohanty, its fintech guru, says he wants to attract fewer "disrupters" than "enablers".
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And by that, we mean boundary-pushers, exceptional disrupters and all-around game-changers.
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This will significantly limit your choices and make "tech disrupters" rare, if not extinct.
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He called himself "a disrupter before disrupters were cool" in a 2017 Forbes column.
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"Black holes must be the most exotic major disrupters of cosmic order," she said.
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Many owners of those businesses are taking pains to be joiners rather than disrupters.
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The official said the host committee and local security officials determine how to handle disrupters.
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Monsanto was the exclusive American manufacturer of PCBs, which are potent endocrine disrupters and carcinogens.
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Disrupters like Airbnb have added to the crunch by converting residential properties into vacation stays.
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I'm reminded of all those tech "disrupters" who keep reverse-engineering things that already exist.
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I'm reminded of all those tech "disrupters" who keep reverse-engineering things that already exist.
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"During the periods where incumbents are battling disrupters, in general the U.S. has done a good job of encouraging disrupters," said Julius Genachowski, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who is now a partner at the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm.
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And that's exactly why they're worth checking out -- the festival has a major need for disrupters.
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Samani sees the main threat from so-called fintech disrupters in payments, lending and credit cards.
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People seen as likely disrupters are often ushered out before Mr. Trump ever takes the stage.
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On the left, the people who seem to be appreciated most right now are the disrupters.
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In addition to a full-on makeover, it's now co-signed by some major style disrupters.
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His belief that rules are there to be broken is analogous with other, modern-day disrupters.
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BIG CITY Tech investors are often the last to see what's so problematic about the disrupters.
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In addition to the disrupters, there are the dealmakers, the loyalists, the establishment and the generals.
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If so, it's time for the president to back candidates like himself: outsiders, truth-tellers, disrupters.
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The gilets jaunes are disrupters as much as Macron, at whom they direct intense personal hatred.
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In other words, the monoculture had so many disrupters that cultural whiplash became the new normal.
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Chanos said that while Amazon's move would pressure supermarket chains, Aldi and Lidl could be bigger disrupters.
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Liz Truss, the chief secretary to the Treasury, often applauds digital disrupters such as Airbnb and Deliveroo.
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The newcomers, he notes, have two things on their side that previous would-be disrupters did not.
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And so the abandonment of upstart emerging-growth "disrupters" by investors goes beyond consumer Internet contenders, though.
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Its arrival on the public market marks the beginning of a new era for one-time disrupters.
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And, why the improbably complex business of getting cabs in Beirut is preferred to disrupters like Uber.
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Even more concerning, but harder to prove, is the damage endocrine disrupters may be doing in utero.
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The exact science behind, and health consequences of, a class of chemicals called endocrine disrupters remains unsettled.
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It underscores their efforts to get acknowledged as part of the entertainment industry, rather than disrupters of it.
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Their children, often educated abroad, could be potential disrupters if they want to work in the family firm.
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Netflix continues to be one of, if not, the biggest disrupters to ever take aim at traditional television.
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And he has suggested that he is the real victim of so-called disrupters who interrupt his events.
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UNITED NATIONS — The establishment was challenging the disrupters: Get your algorithms to stop terrorists from using the internet.
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Trump's attacks on a free press, an independent judiciary and civil society are disrupters out of Bannon's playbook.
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The danger of digital disrupters is forcing comfortable incumbents to raise their game, from Germany's car firms to Walmart.
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Gawande and the venture's mega-rich leaders, who are known as disrupters, have released little information about the effort.
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But she cast that debate in language familiar in the tech world: that of incumbents and forward-thinking disrupters.
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YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF DISRUPTERS AND DIFFERENT CHAINS THAT GET USURPED AND THEN REFORMED QUICKLY.
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And it would damage his reputation, as well as those of his backers, who pride themselves on being disrupters.
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Just look at the Big Five companies that drive the Internet economy -- all disrupters -- Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook.
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Jordan Belson, the filmmaker-mystic as painter; Pedro Almodóvar, the director as photographer; and three artists as disrupters of textiles.
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Remainers have their own rich dreams, no less fascinating, but I spoke mainly to Leavers, since they were the disrupters.
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WE ALSO HAVE A BALANCE SHEET UNLIKE THE NORMAL DISRUPTERS OF MARKETS IN SILICON VALLEY, WE'RE A LICENSED BANK HOLDING COMPANY.
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You've got a fleet of competing disrupters, breathing their friendly, one-word monikers down your neck: Leesa , Keetsa , Nectar , Helix , Lull .
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He frequently works with inventors and industry disrupters, reads books about the future of humanity and funds projects to advance communities.
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The challenge will be to have this bounty deliver a better life to the disrupted as well as to the disrupters.
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Its leadership programmes include a variety of fellowships for executives and disrupters of all kinds, in politics, business, health and education.
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And savvy Disrupters use CrunchMatch, the business-matching platform that takes the stress out of finding and connecting with the right people.
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Another source of market information comes from investing in startups, which helps tech firms gain insights into new markets and possible disrupters.
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Instead, the party's establishment has embraced ideas like expanding the Affordable Care Act, shrinking the space between its leaders and its disrupters.
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As I argued in January, once disrupters such as Amazon, Uber and Airbnb get out front, they become nearly impossible to beat.
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Disrupters include splinter FARC factions, enterprising new gangs and veteran rebel rivals, like the ELN, who have used the agreement to reposition.
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But the two men are conjoined by something more significant: They are both unrepentant iconoclasts and gleeful disrupters of art world conventions.
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The fairy tales of today center on nontraditional start-ups, disrupters geared toward a different value system (also a different commercial system).
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If you have too many status quo disrupters, Washington is a very healthy immunological system, you'll see a full blown organ rejection.
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On both the Democratic and Republican sides, there are candidates selling themselves as disrupters who would bring private-sector savvy into government.
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But these once-renegade moves are now at risk of seeming like their own orthodoxy, prime targets for would-be operatic disrupters.
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This is one of the most powerful economic disrupters that AR will enable, and still very few people are thinking deeply about it.
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With disrupters like Hampton Creek, Roy Choi's Loco'l, and restaurants like L.A.'s Crossroads, it's easier than ever to find animal-free products.
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While those companies have been regularly lauded as disrupters of industry, the consequences of their growth have started becoming evident to many Australians.
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They want consultants to provide and install products, including new technologies, that transform them from top to bottom and keep disrupters at bay.
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Disrupters are given a free pass when it comes to their ideological censorship via hecklers' vetoes, a trend that only emboldens leftist agitators.
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I mean aspiring to feeling better is aspiring to maybe using a product that doesn't have any endocrine disrupters or plastic in it.
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That's digital surveillance, made available to any and all with money on hand, brought to the masses by your friendly neighborhood Silicon Valley disrupters.
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By then, another wave of upheaval may be in prospect—including for today's app-based disrupters—as driverless lorries begin taking to the roads.
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He also points out how size affords banks like JPMorgan the ability to fight back effectively against would-be disrupters in payments and lending.
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Seemingly frustrated with the frequent interruptions at his events, Mr. Trump has threatened legal action against protesters, or "disrupters" as he has called them.
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The disrupters appear to have been picked in part for their singular ability to shake up the normal course of business at their agencies.
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It just so happens that there is a literal box full of disrupters somewhere in the Louisiana swamps, so Waller arranges to let them out.
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Investigators tested 18 hair products - from hot-oil treatments to anti-frizz polishes, relaxers and conditioners - looking for the presence of chemicals called endocrine disrupters.
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Some of the most trusted names in jazz and a host of innovative young disrupters brought cross-media collaborations and fresh approaches to the genre.
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She cited Karlovic's ability to still win ATP titles in his late 30s, as evidence that big servers can be disrupters of conventional tennis wisdom.
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Not unlike many supporters of President Trump, many in this group think of themselves as social disrupters, questioning the relationship between citizens and their states.
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That deal created an airline group that has since outperformed rivals Air France and Lufthansa while seeking to compete with budget disrupters Ryanair and easyJet.
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The moral vacuousness Zuckerberg displayed as a young adult should have told us something about how he and many other young "disrupters" intended to operate.
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It is meant to give the firm an early look at up-and-coming disrupters, which it then either buys or keeps a close eye on.
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Since it began bestowing the prize in 1901, it has never demonstrated an appreciation for pathbreaking American conservatives, much less American disrupters in the Trumpian model.
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Uber, of course, and other ride-hailing services like Lyft, are potentially big disrupters of the automakers' conventional business model of selling cars to individual consumers.
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After all, what are technology "disrupters" selling when they say that now you can order food or see a doctor without even putting on your pants?
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Mr. Schütte has been moving his firm's investments away from bank disrupters and toward start-ups that are set up to partner with existing financial institutions.
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"For some of the endocrine disrupters like phthalates, the basic evidence is strong that they affect reproductive health," says Louis, who carried out the phthalates study.
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The companies we cover have long positioned themselves as "disrupters" of outdated norms, as "change agents" for the betterment of humanity, and literal saviors of the world.
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He knew what these people were, disrupters used by the Kremlin; he had watched communists at work as a child, but had never drunk that poisoned milk.
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People who support Sanders and other disrupters are more like to say politics is a rigged game; they are much less likely to express pride in America.
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That's what happens when you vote for "disrupters" who never spent a second thinking through how all of their disruptions connect the morning after the morning after.
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While their executives have eagerly embraced their status as disrupters and innovators, they have been reluctant to acknowledge that their creations have been used to do harm.
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Our two most famous Neanderthal disrupters, one on each coast, have been in a race to see who can flame out more quickly — and insensibly. Arrogance. Chaos.
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But there's a twist: With the Five, unlike in previous eras of tech, it is not clear that there are many potential disrupters among today's start-ups.
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"Generally, this all reflects that, as more and more tech startup and disruption occurs, more and more the disrupters need to meet with the policy makers," said Forrest.
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Also, experts say adults and children alike can benefit from avoiding hormone disrupters, found in highly processed foods, plastics marked 3, 6 or 7, and some cleaning products.
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The student disrupters have been charged with two violations of the student conduct code -- "disruption of university" and "failure to comply," according to the UO student publication, Daily Emerald .
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As it must be for all industry disrupters, the scorers' advice has to be the opposite of the scouts': if it was identical, their services would not be needed.
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So here we are, on both sides of the Atlantic, governed by two unique specimens, born of electoral upsets, disrupters of exhausted political systems enjoying large constitutional presidential powers.
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Experts say adults and children alike can benefit from avoiding the hormone disrupters in many highly processed foods; plastics marked 3, 6 or 7; and chemical-based cleaning products.
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Experts say adults and children alike can benefit from avoiding the hormone disrupters in many highly processed goods; plastics marked 3, 6 or 7; and chemical-based cleaning products.
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"We tend to think hormone disrupters are a mom and baby issue," said Dr. Leonardo Trasande, the chief of the division of environmental pediatrics at N.Y.U. School of Medicine.
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One need look no further than the biggest names in Silicon Valley to find evidence of successful disrupters, from Napster to Amazon to Uber to Airbnb and so on.
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Did the scooter start-ups actually deserve that jab or were they simply in the trough of disillusionment, a setback that all Silicon Valley innovators and disrupters must endure?
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Consulting fire safety and tunnel engineering experts, Harris build a strong case for why state and local governments should be suspicious of technology disrupters cutting corners in public infrastructure.
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" Declaring victory over the Disrupters is "the Resistance," equivalently endowed with a capital letter but otherwise overmatched by their opponents: "The Disrupters are led by a cabal of self-centered billionaires who love to exercise their power over others," Ravitch helpfully explains, "and the Resistance is led by tireless parents, students, grandparents, public school graduates, teachers, retired teachers, community leaders and religious leaders who are devoted to the principle of separation of church and state.
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The potential for disruption of the disrupters is clear, Buyer acknowledged: Crowdfunding for equity cuts down a huge barrier that venture capital firms have worked to their advantage for decades.
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Traditional banking isn't likely to be completely displaced by fintech disrupters, however, said Mr. Wallace of Silicon Valley Bank; the industry is large enough to have room for more firms.
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With over 28 shades of red, in matte or satin finish, the brand has a vegan formula available, and all lipsticks are made without endocrine disrupters, allergens, paraffins or perfumes.
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All of the companies styled themselves as disrupters, and they did change the way Americans travel, communicate and work — just as Casper changed the way millions shop for their sleep.
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Turning in-house to create products is another money saver in general for Tecovas and other direct-to-consumer disrupters like it, and it lowers the price for consumers considerably.
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All of the companies styled themselves as disrupters, and they did change the way Americans travel, communicate and work — just as Casper changed the way millions shop for their sleep.
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And some agricultural pesticides have been shown to be endocrine disrupters, which can shake up the delicate balance of hormones in the body, possibly affecting reproductive abilities and heightening cancer risks.
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They may be partially reassured that General Atlantic, an investor in Airbnb and Uber, disrupters of hotel and taxi services respectively, understands the importance of trying to keep regulators at bay.
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They are disrupters who look to at things in new ways to deliver products or services that others aren't willing to step out of line and assume the risk to try.
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That was code for "there's really no problem at all" since we know, of course, that nuclear threats, terrorist events, Ebola outbreaks, and government shutdowns have been barely perceptible market disrupters.
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Ms. Varza has been trying to lure to Station F the early-stage start-ups that have the potential to be the next disrupters in health, finance, education and even fashion.
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Like other wildly popular disrupters (Theranos, the blood-testing company that is now under siege, comes to mind), Lending Club had a star-studded board and a concept that made investors swoon.
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The blowup revealed the business challenges facing many "direct to consumer" brands backed by venture capital, and the generational challenges between young disrupters and the experienced executives needed to help them mature.
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One other health note: A new study found high concentrations of phthalates, hormone disrupters that can be especially damaging to children, in the highly processed cheese powder in boxed mac and cheese.
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NOW WHEN YOU PUT US TOGETHER THEN YOU CAN TURBO CHARGE THAT, AND YOU CAN SEE THE SAME DISRUPTERS OFFERING A BETTER PRODUCT, LOWER PRICES, AND AT THE SAME TIME ATTRACTING NEW JOBS.
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In the new, monthly podcast series, CNBC's international technology reporters will look beyond Silicon Valley and will explore the biggest global technology stories with some of the industry's most prolific disrupters and entrepreneurs.
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These Silicon Valley disrupters are not confining their ambitions to sedans; instead, they have announced plans for electric semis, electric pickups, electric buses, and various other products that defy the preeminence of diesel engines.
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In his quest for answers, he had talked to digital disrupters and new media companies, had toyed with some high/low creative endeavors (a perfume with Frédéric Malle, sneakers with Converse, bags with LeSportsac).
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Embedded in these programs is at least one contradiction: They promote entrepreneurship and leadership, but are also training kids to be good employees; to be innovators and disrupters, but also to be model office drones.
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TEHRAN — Iran's highest leader said on Wednesday that any disrupters of national elections, which are less than two weeks away, would receive a "slap in the face," underscoring the political tensions lurking behind the vote.
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In the profile, written by Jaqueline Woodson, Waithe is heralded as one of Hollywood's disrupters, forcing diverse change onto an industry that has hardly opened its doors for Black voices and stories, let alone queer ones.
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Both silly and poignant, the video and accompanying bottles and canvases, which are affixed with Sufferhead Original labels, point to the challenges for migrants thrust into cultures where they are treated as interlopers, disrupters or terrorists.
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These findings are all associations, which means that while exposure to endocrine disrupters is more likely to be found in men suffering from reduced fertility, it doesn't mean that the chemicals themselves are definitively the cause.
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That means we could see sperm levels continue to decline for years, as boys who were exposed to endocrine disrupters before birth reach reproductive age and run into problems trying to have children of their own.
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After scoring the first few seasons of shows for the cult fashion disrupters Hood by Air, Mr. Rubin moved to Los Angeles and co-founded the record label Fade to Mind (Fatima Al Qadiri, Kelela, Nguzunguzu).
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And while I agree that Africa cannot entrepreneur-its-way-out of bad governance, I am hopeful that the political innovators, (including women, youth and other disrupters of the governing status-quo), will find their way.
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This is Part IV in a multi-part series that features original commentary on the state of leftist movements in Europe from political disrupters Winnie Wong and Claire Sandberg as they schlep their way across the continent.
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This is Part III in a multi-part series that features original commentary on the state of leftist movements in Europe from political disrupters Winnie Wong and Claire Sandberg as they schlep their way across the continent.
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This is Part II in a multi-part series that features original commentary on the state of leftist movements in Europe from political disrupters Winnie Wong and Claire Sandberg as they schlep their way across the continent.
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When it comes to plastic containers, there has been some concern over materials containing BPA (bisphenol-A) and phthalates, which may be "endocrine disrupters" (meaning that they can mess with your hormones,) according to Harvard Health Publishing.
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To put it in the language of 21st-century capitalism, the founders of Communism are disrupters and innovators, in possession of the entrepreneurial doggedness and the self-righteous zeal required to bend the world to their will.
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Some disrupters require the entrepreneur to personally guarantee the corporate card, said Mr. Dubugras, which means, if the business fails, the entity could go after the founder's home, car and assets to cover the credit card losses.
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The report warned that the Pacific is confronting a series of complex disrupters like climate change, transnational organized crime and resource competition, as well as an increasing presence of external actors that is raising the geostrategic competition.
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This is Part I in a multi-part series that will feature original commentary on the state of leftist movements in Europe from political disrupters Winnie Wong and Claire Sandberg as they schlep their way across the continent.
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"We now know that many hair products contain chemicals that are considered carcinogenic and/or hormone disrupters, leading to increased risk of medical issues such as fibroids," says Shirley McDonald, consultant trichologist at the Hair and Scalp Clinic.
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In that way, the naysayers are a little like veteran political pundits whose pontifications about electability don't mention that our two most recent presidents made it to the White House by positioning themselves as disrupters of Washington tradition.
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Most studios do not see them as disrupters from Silicon Valley, something that has stalled start-ups like Screening Room, which has tried without success since 2400 to speed first-run movies to homes for a premium price.
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On no grounds other than my innate distrust of rich, white Silicon Valley "disrupters," he's always given me Batman villain-in-waiting vibes (and his embrace of union-busting tactics at his car factories doesn't do him any favors).
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"The hashtag appeared to be coordinated with large, elaborate posters that were posted outside the town hall venue by disrupters, who were probably given the financial resources and assistance necessary to carry out their campaign of disruption," she said.
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He was BA chief executive before overseeing its merger with Iberia in 2011, a deal that created an airline group which has since outperformed rivals Air France and Lufthansa , and sought to compete with budget disrupters Ryanair and easyJet.
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He was BA chief executive before overseeing its merger with Iberia in 20.9001, a deal that created an airline group which has since outperformed rivals Air France and Lufthansa , and sought to compete with budget disrupters Ryanair and easyJet.
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As the report implies, tech is simply in a different economy to the normal economy, and the reasons are simple: Disrupters are better protected even if economic conditions deteriorate because many are created simply to take market share from incumbent businesses.
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I suppose that love of the outsider shaking things up has a big appeal to Silicon Valley leaders, who love to think of themselves as disrupters, even if they are more of the permanent ruling class than they care to admit.
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While there are plenty of extraordinary start-ups creating new markets with a path to genuine advantage, self-described "disrupters" often find that the same forces that allowed them to get going initially also let in a horde of rivals.
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Global giants like General Motors, Toyota, Ford and Volkswagen are fully engaged in the self-driving race against the likes of Tesla, Uber and Waymo, a unit of Google's parent company, and are loath to be outmaneuvered by Silicon Valley disrupters.
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She was glued to the coming midterm elections, following myriad candidates and the rising tide of disrupters around the country, and she wanted to take what had become a focus of her personal life and include it in her professional life.
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From talks that explored modern-day activism and how business can be used as a catalyst for social good, to the intersection between science and storytelling and why fashion is poised to be one of the next big disrupters in the tech industry.
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In the age of disrupters, where Trump has emerged as the disrupter in chief, Macron is turning out to be a conciliator -- and, in the end, the kind of true leader that his American guest may aspire to be, but never become.
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Africa needs to break the legacy hold of patriarchal geriatric leaders and open up governance to political outsiders, to women and to youth — to those like Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Abiy Ahmed — disrupters with new ideas, and not captive to vested interests.
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When a story about beauty products that didn't have endocrine disrupters and formaldehyde got a lot of traffic in 2015, the company started Goop by Juice Beauty, a collection of "clean" face creams and oils and cleansers that it promised lacked those things.
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Unsurprisingly, there have been the usual post-mortems and recriminations; the tsking over our desire to impart special powers to the young disrupters of the digital age; and our obsessions with the brilliant-dropout narrative and overinflated valuations built on unproven products.
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That isn't an endorsement, just a result of looking at the rules and some long thinking on the pressure that the delegates will be under, both the soft wooing and brass knuckles threats from online mobs, as well as disrupters on the streets of Cleveland.
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In the fabled universe of overnight billionaires and unicorns, companies with billion-dollar valuations, Ms. Holmes had catapulted herself and her company into the buzz-filled world of "disrupters" by pledging to upend the health industry and give consumers control over their own care.
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A startling study from 2016 of fish in U.S. wildlife refuges in the Northeast found that 60 to 100 percent of all the male smallmouth bass studied had eggs growing in their testes—a startling feminization—which researchers linked to endocrine disrupters in the waters.
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For years, most of the Frightful Five were given the benefit of the doubt as economic disrupters that were undercutting the cultural and economic power of the big industries that many people despised — entertainment giants, cable and phone companies, and the news media, among others.
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As crowdfunding models have become more complicated, a new generation of real estate technology disrupters has addressed some of the shortcomings of crowdfunding with a more holistic funding model, providing protection for investors and helping them build wealth through a combination of cash flow and appreciation.
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"Every industry is a technology industry and being able to understand that, and knowing how to use these tools, regardless of what you're doing, is huge," Dr. Patti Fletcher, an angel investor and author of Disrupters: Success Strategies From Women Who Break The Mold, told Refinery29.
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And it will place Mr. Salonen, one of classical music's great disrupters — and the rare conductor who is tech savvy and cool enough to have been a pitchman for Apple — at the helm of an orchestra seeking to feed off the creative energy of Silicon Valley.
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So I opened Raj Kumar's new book, The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry, expecting Kumar to be less than impressed with the new heavy-hitters diving into the world he has worked in for decades.
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The story will take you from the sunny skies of Los Angeles to the bustling streets of Austin during SXSW festival where we run into an old friend and show how both large-scale innovators like PepsiCo and lesser-known disrupters are prioritizing the expansion into "thinking" technology.
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The antitrust system results in the increasing oligopoly that we have, where a few companies dominate major industries, accruing the wealth and power that go with it as potential disrupters are swallowed at birth, the way Cronus, the titan in Greek mythology, ate his young to prevent their uprising.
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Yet, Syria shows how, when Mr Obama stands back in the hope that regional leaders will stop free-riding on American power and work together for the collective good, the vacuum is filled by disrupters like Iran and IS, and by Russia in its search for the next source of propaganda.
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None of this is to say that these companies will end up owning all of this themselves — at the very least, the disrupters from outside the industry and newcomers like Tesla have pushed the incumbents to innovate faster, and they may well end up owning some of the end result, too.
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In addition to Ms. DeVos, Mr. Pruitt, Mr. Perry and Mr. Mulvaney, the disrupters include Ben Carson, chosen to lead the Housing Department; Andrew Puzder as labor secretary; Representative Tom Price of Georgia to oversee the Health and Human Services Department; and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama as attorney general.
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No surprise then that these forces played out in real-time during the 2019 elections, an energized youth-driven civil society empowered through education and technology demanding that their voices be heard, confronting weak institutions, captive to political interests, and patriarchic politicians unprepared to let political outsiders and disrupters enter their captive space.
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A third view may have the highest likelihood of coming true: The big banks, so powerful and yet so anxious about the possibility of being disrupted by the upstarts, will gobble them all up in a spate of mergers and acquisitions that puts the disrupters squarely inside the institutions they were supposed to overtake.
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"Because hormones act at low concentrations in our blood, it is not surprising that even low-level exposures to endocrine disrupters can contribute to disease," said Laura N. Vandenberg, an assistant professor in the department of environmental health sciences at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst's School of Public Health, who spoke on behalf of the Endocrine Society.
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The book isn't so much about Uber (although there are plenty of juicy anecdotes about Las Vegas blow-out parties, its Greyball app to block transportation officials from using Uber, and a long list of company values, including No. 12: "Super Pumped"); it's more about "the cult of the founder" and industry "disrupters," to use Silicon Valley parlance.
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Van Beirendonck was one of the lone disrupters of this code of masculinity and formality, melding technically futuristic fabrics — often those used exclusively in sportswear — with the couture-like craftsmanship he learned at the Royal Academy, while overlaying a uniquely sunny, humorous, almost childlike filter on his anarchistic silhouettes, which were otherwise informed by darker allusions to B.D.S.M. and punk rock culture.
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And for someone who has made a professional and personal signature out of the plain gray tee and jeans — who has posted pictures of the row of gray T-shirts and hoodies hanging in his closet on his Facebook page; whose success has made those gray tees and hoodies into shorthand for a new generation of disrupters, as aspirational an outfit as a Savile Row suit once was — it was as much a visual statement of renunciation and respect as any verbal apology.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE early Sunday accused Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE of lying by saying the Vermont senator's "disrupters" aren't told to go to the GOP front-runner's events.
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