Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tokyo. The cancellation may have been partly in response to what Tokyo sees as a rather flaccid American response to North Korea's launch of a missile over Japan two weeks ago. For their part, U.S. officials fear that Japan's stonewalling may be a reflection of real disarray in the Obuchi government. If the trend continues, then Japan cannot expect Washington's spirit of camaraderie to last for long...
...monopoly on the alcohol industry, they hope to get as much hard currency as possible into state coffers," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "The problem is there's little chance that they have the infrastructure to enforce it." The state machinery required to police liquor distribution is in disarray, while the Russian underworld -- which has a huge stake in the market -- is stronger than ever...
...their part, U.S. officials fear that Japan?s stonewalling may be a reflection of real disarray in the Obuchi government. If the trend continues, then Japan cannot expect Washington?s spirit of camaraderie to last for long...
...opponents as quotas and racial preferences. Lurid stories about white male job seekers or college applicants being passed over for less qualified blacks or women have been accepted as the norm, even though many of the tales turned out to be bogus. Yet the N.A.A.C.P. was in such disarray that it couldn't fight back...
General Abdulsalam Abubakar's nine-month timetable for a transition to military rule is good news for both the country's military rulers and their civilian opposition. "The sudden death of both General Sani Abacha and Moshood Abiola left all sides in disarray," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "It turned the military's planned election -- in which Abacha was the only candidate -- into a referendum over whether a dead man should rule the country. But it also left the opposition without a clear alternative...