Word: disarray
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...hour strike paralyzes a nation already in disarray...
...political life. Their repressive rule has left Argentina with economic disaster, international notoriety for the scale of its human rights violations and national disgrace in the aftermath of last year's war with Britain over the Falklands. The strike was further evidence of the military government's disarray...
...money alone could not solve Chrysler's problems. When lacocca arrived, he found management in disarray. Executive responsibilities were ill defined, and there were few of the sophisticated financial tools needed to keep track of operations. The quickest fix lacocca knew was to hire people who understood the same system he did: other Ford executives. Some were called out of retirement, others were wooed away and enlisted with lacocca for the challenge of engineering a turnaround. Today the four top officers are Ford alumni: lacocca; Vice Chairman Gerald Greenwald; Harold Sperlich, president of North American automotive operations; and Executive Vice...
First with the familiar cocked-head grin, then with the impatient venting of breath that shows he is really irritated, Ronald Reagan got back at the press. "I came in to point out to you accurately where the disarray lies," he said: not in the White House but in the press corps. It was not one of his better one-liners. Far from being in "disarray," the press was in considerable agreement about indecision and disarray in the Administration...
...back away from some of his most cherished beliefs about military spending and taxes. He denied stoutly that he was doing any such thing and, in fact, seemed to be largely unaware of the economic and political stakes. Nettled by charges in the press that his Administration was "in disarray" and losing its direction, Reagan charged at his Friday meeting with newsmen that the disarray was in the minds of reporters who were printing tentative budget proposals as hard-and-fast decisions. He added, "I do not believe that, philosophically, I have changed...