In addition, such a change would involve the risk of dislocating accounting systems and disturbance to business practice generally.
I assure him that there will be no sudden change overnight, dislocating all the arrangements or, indeed, producing any hiatus.
In its early stages it is a dislocating factor, and makes its full impact on labour only after a considerable delay.
I question, however, whether that can be done now without considerably dislocating the whole-business.
It has a very dislocating effect on the organisation of any battalion to have heavy casualties probably before it is even mobilised.
It is impossible to transfer huge sums for which there is no commercial basis without dislocating the currency and exchange of the world.
They are so closely inter-linked that you cannot shatter them in one direction without dislocating them all over the world.
Any change in fortune that is so unexpected is dislocating, whether it is a change for the better or for the worse.
