Word: disarray
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...found his jogging shoes, she began to worry. She went down the hall to the apartment of Buddy Jacobson, whom she had abandoned to move in with Tupper several weeks ago. Jacobson refused to let her in, but she was able to see that his apartment was in disarray, with bloodstains on the carpet. Returning to Tupper's apartment, she telephoned the police and reported that he was missing...
...blacks. The real progress of the women's rights movement in America has been, and will continue to be, agonizingly slow. We are still an outrageously sexist nation, and there are only minor signs of change, and the feminist movement has by and large collapsed into a rather bizarre disarray. Yet 100,000 people marched in Washington to show their support for women's rights, and millions more must surely realize the sensibility of sexual equality. Here is a clear case of inertia holding the upper hand...
When he first took over, Califano claims, "HEW was in a state of absolute organizational disarray." He cites the report by HEW'S inspector general that the department wastes $6 billion annually. To try to straighten out the programs and cut down the waste, Califano set up a watchdog bureau similar to the President's Office of Management and Budget. The office has department-wide oversight of budgeting, planning, procurement, and reorganization. Though HEW deals with human beings and not hardware, Califano wants to quantify program goals as much as possible. He has set up targets for reducing waste...
...sells his soul to the Mafia (in the guise of mobster Babe Milano, played in sleazy enough fashion by Tony Lo Bianco), and watches--along with millions of Americans who saw him do so well against Apollo Creed--as his self-created American dream grows, and then collapses in disarray, about...
...Thursday, his last full day as President, Nixon gave some advice to Gerald Ford: "I said that the only man who would be absolutely indispensable to him was Henry Kissinger. If he were to leave after I resigned, I said, our foreign policy would soon be in disarray throughout the world...