Word: disarray
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...finger-pointing and disarray in the President's inner circle only worsened the damage already done to the U.S. image abroad. European allies who felt betrayed by what they saw as U.S. violation of the principles Washington urges on them -- no negotiations with terrorists, no arms sales to Iran -- were not mollified by Reagan's many explanations. In Bonn, one official noted, "The Americans are still trying to stop such exports, and now we see what they do." In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, loyally backing the White House, heard shouts of "Reagan's poodle!" from Labor backbenchers...
Basic education is also crucial, but with so many of America's inner-city schools in disarray, outside programs are often the key to childrens' academic success. "It's a vicious cycle," says Babette Edwards of the Harlem Tutorial and Referral Project. "Low standards, the lack of a rigorous, challenging curriculum is detrimental to kids." Her organization stresses basic reading and writing skills in individual and small-group after-school sessions...
...Nunn, D-Ga., incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "I counted at least seven contradictions from what I have been told by his top aides. ... We have a strong foreign policy that's in serious disarray...
...during the past four years lost more than $200 million. Last September federal banking regulators forced the resignation of First National's chairman and largest stockholder, Charles A. Vose Sr., 85, who had led the bank since 1945. But the new chairman, J.G. Cairns Jr., found the institution in disarray, its books a mess and its staff slashed from 2,400 to 650. First National's decline proved so irreversible that on July 11 the FDIC foresaw an imminent collapse and put out a call for bids from other financial institutions to acquire the bank...
...years doctors have decried the structural and financial disarray of modern medicine and one of its clear ramifications, the poor's inaccess to proper medical treatment...