Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another sign that NASA has become infected with the same corrupting virus that struck the Pentagon. Two months ago, the space agency's inspector general told a congressional subcommittee that he had launched more than 400 investigations into waste, fraud and abuse. NASA's books were in such disarray, he said, that it could not account for assets worth roughly $12 billion...
Murphy has proven elsewhere that he can take a program that is in disarray and turn it around...
Controversy over the three subsidy plans last week caused an E.C. industry ministers' meeting to break up in disarray. The officials had hoped to clear the way for a crucial $11 billion restructuring scheme that aims to cut European steelmaking capacity 20%, or 30 million tons a year -- and in the process throw at least 60,000 people out of work. The stakes are high for an industry that lost $4.5 billion in 1992. "If we do nothing," says a Commission official, "the whole industry will be bankrupt in two years...
...Minister; his coalition allies asked him to take the job," recalls Kazuo Nukazawa, a managing director at Keidanren. "Unlike all the Prime Ministers before him, he has no debts to pay." Last week he showed he could marshal all the energy of his youth, without overweening rashness or inexperienced disarray. It was only a first step. But it was the step without which there would have been no others. The results should be liberating not only for himself but also for Japan...
While relief was evident when the standoff ended without spilled blood, most Nicaraguans saw little cause to celebrate. The conditions that provoked the confrontation -- governmental disarray, unpopular political appointments, unsettled land grievances and shattered economic hopes -- remain unaffected. Though few citizens are girding for a resumption of the civil war that despoiled Nicaragua throughout the 1980s, there is a palpable fear that if the two sides do not continue a dialogue, the country will sink from political polarization into chaos. "Our tradition has been to divide in times of crisis," says Jose Pallais, the Deputy Foreign Minister. "The solution...