Word: confusional
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Success Rooted in Confusion
The CCA's slim five-person majority on the nine-member council was thrown into confusion by the defection of Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves, the council's only minority member.
The result was a deadly confusion that seemed to overtake every level of government. Immediately after the quake, Kobe authorities failed to cordon off main roads for official use, and the delay of police and fire vehicles undoubtedly raised the death toll. For nearly four hours, the Governor of Hyogo...
Or will he conclude that he has been led into the debacle by those same uniformed loyalists? If so, he will be looking for scapegoats. He may have begun the search last week in the Defense Ministry, which is led by his old comrade General Pavel Grachev. Yeltsin met with...
Even some of the tank crews were made up of men who had never trained together. The slipshod organization produced not just confusion -- the Russians suffered many casualties from "friendly fire" -- but ineffectiveness in combat. Generals should know that on the battlefield, soldiers swallow their fear and fight to support...