Word: disarray
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...then Mulroney had already assembled a nationwide political machine and raised an estimated $14 million. After years of relying on the Trudeau name to win elections, the Liberals found themselves with an organization in disarray and a bankroll of only $2 million. So chaotic was the Turner team that the Prime Minister replaced his campaign manager halfway through the race. "Part of the problem is that you must have a horse and a jockey," says a Turner associate. "John tried to be both...
Adding to Ferraro's disarray was the reappearance of another old controversy: the illegal funding of her first congressional election campaign in 1978. Though campaign loans are limited to $1,000 per individual, Ferraro's election committee was bankrolled by loans totaling $134,000 from Zaccaro and their three children...
...troubled decade left U.S. economists in brawling disarray. The monetarists, who stress the importance of gradual growth of the money supply to a sound economy, and Keynesians set up a clamor of conflicting claims. Members of the rational-expectations school argued that deficit spending could not work over the long run. And a small but vocal group of economists known as supply-siders called loudly for incentives to save and produce...
Mondale capitalized on the Republicans' disarray. "I believe Ronald Reagan and George Bush should have a national debate on television," he joked. Reagan's policy, he said, recycling Candidate Bush's swipe at Reagan in the 1980 primaries, amounts to "voodoo economics...
...Live and General Hospital-are continuing during the Games, but in shortened, 40-min. episodes so that all three can be squeezed into a special two-hour time slot. No matter how well ABC's Olympics coverage does in the ratings (which have been excellent so far), the disarray in the network's daytime schedule could have a lasting and damaging effect. The nail-biting question that programmers face: Once the Olympic flame has been extinguished and the last gold medals awarded, will ABC's soap fans tune in again...