Word: disarray
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Such politicking leaves little time for effective government; and Italy, for all its economic vigor, is otherwise in disarray. The country ranks an embarrassing 20th in per capita income ($1,400 per year) among nations, trailing not only Japan but all of Western Europe's major industrial states. Italian workers are unhappy about low wages. Students complain about overcrowded universities. The country's penal code is outdated. Seven out of ten Italians polled recently in a public-opinion survey were disgusted enough to say that they were willing to vote temporary power to an "honest, energetic and disinterested...
More Planes than Pilots. With its policy in disarray and its Arab clients seeking help, Moscow must now decide what to do. Providing the Arabs with hotter equipment-new MIG-23 "Foxbats" to replace destroyed MIG-21s or SA3 missiles in lieu of the SA-2s-is impractical. The Egyptians are scarcely able to handle what they have been given. In an unusually frank interview with U.S. Newsmen William Tuohy and Rowland Evans, Nasser admitted last week that "we have more planes than pilots." Nor is Moscow likely to order its own military advisers to expose themselves to danger...
...Lahr's scratchy voice, wobbly warble and gnong, gnong, gnong earned their share of laughs. But his very special gift was a capacity to turn body English into a complete, expressive grammar of feeling. From his bulbous nose and porridge face to his spindly legs, the controlled disarray of Lahr's features and physique could point up ludicrous resonances even in a simple hello. Lyricist Johnny Mercer once wrote Lahr: "This is the first time I've ever seen a performer do my material better than I meant it. You find laughs where the laughs aren...
...chiefly responsible for the Market's state of disarray will not be at the huge oval table. Charles de Gaulle saw the EEC as little more than an expediter of French policies and was determined to keep it thoroughly subservient to the six governments that brought it into being. On two occasions De Gaulle vetoed British membership. During one seven-month period, he ordered his ministers to boycott all meetings of the Six to demonstrate his displeasure over what he considered supranational power plays by the EEC Commission. De Gaulle became a symbol of obstinacy, but he also provided...
...guts reporter, with some blood-'n'-guts to report for a change. I walked up the hill to the other prominent campus bar, where I had considered spending some time earlier in the night. Both front windows were smashed, and the furniture inside was in an impressive state of disarray. The boys were batting 1.000 in Ithaca, New York, last Saturday...