Word: disarray
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There probably is no easy way for the loser to endure the transition of presidential power. He is faced with the exuberance of the winner, impatient to get into the White House. He is surrounded with the political disarray of his expiring Administration. By most measures, the change from Bush to Bill Clinton will be less traumatic than others. The anti-Bush tide was running for weeks. Only blind fanatics -- and that does not include Bush -- could see a good chance of redemption in the last campaign days...
...defeat looms, the Administration is in disarray...
...long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party power brokers, was furious that Kanemaru got off so lightly. Protests within his party, in business circles and in the press finally forced Kanemaru to resign his seat in the Diet and as chief of his faction, throwing the ruling party into disarray. Said he: "It was Shin Kanemaru who was wrong. There are no other bad guys...
WHILE THE GETTING'S GOOD The President looks and sounds like a loser, so his Administration is in disarray: the CIA is quarreling with Justice, the State Department is accused of dirty tricks, and James Baker is missing in action. No wonder Bush aides are preparing to flee like rats from a sinking ship...
...success of Brandt's Ostpolitik contrasted with disarray in domestic politics. The last straw was the 1974 arrest of a close aide, Gunter Guillaume, on charges of spying for East Germany. Brandt resigned under pressure, a decision he later regretted. "I blame myself for not banging my fist on the table and demanding a stop to all the nonsense," he wrote in his 1989 memoirs...