Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It is in this tense milieu that the Arabs' "men of sacrifice" operate, in a defiant effort to exploit its instabilities to their own ends. The fedayeen, who owe no fealty to any government, are responsible only to themselves, and view any settlement as a betrayal and a disaster...
The problem is not mismanagement but the fact that the center did not develop quite in the way its founders had in mind. The great artistic companies it houses-the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet-are independent operations that have a cooperative tenant-landlord...
Despite his Herald Tribune disaster,.Whitney never got completely out of publishing. His corporation has long owned three other publications: Parade, a newspaper Sunday supplement; Harvest Years, a monthly for the retired; and Interior Design, a trade journal for interior decorators. Whitney Communications is also the controlling stockholder in the...
"The freshman season is always a disaster," Marion said when asked about the team's prospects. "Fencing is such a complicated sport that you cannot teach everything in one year. Tomorrow they will be fencing with one tenth of what they need to know."
But SPS has only one combustion chamber, one propellant injector and one nozzle. All these must operate reliably to avoid disaster.