Word: disarray
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...while the security situation in Iraq has arguably improved, the political side has deteriorated to its worst state of disarray since Maliki took office. U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, speaking to reporters Tuesday in the Green Zone, was blunt in his bleak assessment. "Progress on national level issues has been extremely disappointing and frustrating to all concerned - to us, to Iraqis, to the Iraqi leadership itself," said Crocker, who echoed rising voices of discontent in Washington. "Our support is not a blank check...
...midst of such disarray, Blair has little chance of preparing Palestinians for peace and self-rule. The leadership of Fatah, reviled by most Palestinians for being pawns of the U.S. and Israel, has little ability to deliver the stability and security that Israel needs. And Hamas, whose enemies charge it with being a cat's paw for Iran, but which has the support of a majority of Palestinians, refuses to recognize Israel, and is rapidly developing its military capability in Gaza, raising the likelihood of Israeli intervention...
...Others are more serious. The conventional wisdom is that public pre-university education is in disarray. On the day we visited a public elementary school, four out of 11 teachers were missing. The government takes the publicly-financed healthcare system very seriously; posters about child vaccinations and medical attention blanket buses. Over the past 15 years, the government has conducted a very aggressive and effective anti-AIDS campaign that has included universal free treatment and television advertisements featuring parents giving condoms to progeny of various sexual persuasions. However, the system has been criticized: The Minister of Health faced audience participation...
Support and friendship might not exactly be something that you look for from your varsity coach, but that’s exactly what the fencing team has in its leader, Peter Brand. When the Israeli native came to Harvard in 1999, the squad was in disarray. Now, eight years later, high schoolers want to join the Crimson to have the chance to be his fencer. Brand boasts a national championship team, and numerous individual champions have emerged from under his tutelage. This year, Brand continued to add to his coaching resume. The fencing team took a number of hits throughout...
...undermined the integrity and the efficiency of China's drug monitoring and supervision, endangered public life and health and had a very negative social impact," the report quoted the court as saying. (It's unclear if Zheng will appeal.) Officials say the country's pharmaceutical industry is now in disarray; many of the SFDA's senior officials are under arrest or investigation and virtually all previous decisions are being reviewed, leading to confusion and paralysis. It may take years to sort out the mess created during Zheng's long tenure-and there will no doubt be further illnesses and deaths...