Word: disarray
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...legitimate ruler here?"Senator Pat Moynihan asked aloud at a press conference last week. It was an impish inquiry, since Legitimate Ruler Jimmy Carter was alive and well at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, but Moynihan's question reflected Washington's increasing sense of dissatisfaction and disarray. Indeed, as the week's end brought some expert claims that the U.S. has already entered a recession even though the Consumer Price Index rose in April at an annual rate of 14%, Carter himself may have felt like a man on the wrong side of the walls...
Meanwhile, NIOC's Tehran headquarters are in disarray. Many decisions are hanging fire. Two competing workers' councils constantly battle, challenge each other's decisions and block action...
...transition Tucker describes, like the initial radicalization of students, did not happen overnight. Nor did it affect all students in the same way. Disarray displaced decentralization in SDS: sympathizers drifted away, alienated by the more extreme and violent factions, which were highly visible if not dominant. The war ended but only after Richard M. Nixon was elected for four more years. Unemployment statistics seemed as important as body counts had a few years earlier. Former militants, confused and depressed, retreated from politics for a few years. "The quietness came because people didn't know what to do," Berg says...
...play is impeccably traditional: not necessarily a flaw, but once more emphasizing the language which is beyond the performers. Lester's pacing of the mostly uncut script is smooth and well-jointed, and a few nice touches--like a drum beat behind the duel scene--relive the general disarray a bit. Her failure lies in the casting of the show, not in the details of its direction...
...LIBERALS continue to take their stand on the rock of the Constitution, instead of using more persuasive arguments against the whole idea of a balanced-budget amendment. Their cries of alarm only draw attention to the sad disarray into which American liberals have fallen. Calculating that they could not win a popular battle, they are calling in law professors and raising a standard in defense of a constitution which is in no danger. It would hearten those who agree with their basic stand against a balanced-budget amendment if they dropped the scare tactics and fought the issue out where...