Word: disarrayed
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Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, after just a month in office struggling to retain credibility as his nation's finances appear in disarray, today fired his treasury secretary and adopted an international bailout package which hopes to stabilize the peso. Treasury Secretary Jaime Serra Puche will be replaced by another U.S. trained economist, Guillermo Ortiz Martinez. The new package is designed to limit wage and price hikes and will also include unspecified financing from industrialized nations including the U.S. and Canada. Meanwhile, the value of the peso increased today, a second straight day of improving prospects for the nation's currency...
...Raoul Cedras into exile. It is a measure of Haiti's desperation that the country's remarkable progress has been surpassed only by the magnitude of what remains to be done. Despite achievements that exceed all but the most optimistic expectations, Haiti is still bankrupt and riven by social disarray and class distrust. Even the President, who continues to sleep on a fold-up cot in his office, seems stunned by the problems. "This country is like a battered old truck that's stuck," Aristide confided to a friend. "Pushing it will not start it. It needs technical work...
...domestic politics and bluff; now it has virtually disintegrated under the pressure of the Bosnian Serbs and quarreling presidential advisers. The Serb triumph at Bihac has brought home the extent of Washington's failure and opened a bitter debate about what to do next. "Our policy is in complete disarray," admits a senior official. The debacle on the battlefield left the White House, senior Administration officials and a leading legislator separately enunciating contradictory positions...
...HAVEN, Conn.--Richard C. Levin took over as president of Yale in the spring of 1993 amid widespread agreement that the nation's second oldest university was in serious disarray...
Green left under a cloud of speculation and disarray in the administration and questions about an apparent mismatch between a man and his mission...