Word: disarray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that point, Tapson was wondering if she wanted to continue playing for the Crimson. "It was really bad," Tapson said "Everyone was hurt and people were quitting right and left. The program was in disarray. I didn't know if I was going to come back...
...presidential election put the defeated conservatives in disarray. The center-right Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.), which supported former Premier Raymond Barre in the first round of voting in April, found itself torn by new rivalries for the leadership and cowed by the tacit threat of a parliamentary election. Consequently, the U.D.F. was wrangling over what position it should take toward the new government. Outgoing Culture Minister Francois Leotard flatly criticized it, though he refrained from recommending a censure vote. Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing spoke benignly of a "constructive opposition." Outgoing Transport Minister Pierre Mehaignerie and former European...
...this was merely a prelude to the coming titanic struggle in the April 19 New York primary. Governor Mario Cuomo remains determinedly on the sidelines, and despite the Democratic disarray, there is a growing acknowledgment that he has no intention of playing party savior -- at least before the convention. Still, the New York primary promises a feverish three-way contest, in which Jackson might capture a plurality in the state with the second largest number of delegates. And if he can make it there, he can make it anywhere -- even, conceivably, to the top of the Democratic ticket...
Austin, 43, a political consultant who managed two successful campaigns for Ohio Governor Richard Celeste, joined the campaign last November. He found the troops in disarray: Jackson's Chicago headquarters lacked not only copying machines but wastebaskets. Thus far, Austin has helped make the trains run and lifted staff morale. He is tough talking and irreverent; his greatest strength, observes another Jackson lieutenant, "is that he isn't afraid to make a decision...
Party leaders had hoped to create a bandwagon, but now their mood was closer to circle the wagons. After 32 state primaries and caucuses, the Democrats seemed no closer to selecting a nominee than when the process began. In fact, the Democratic disarray is so complete that it is becoming difficult to imagine how the party will coalesce around any current contender...