Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consider the reinsurance scheme a success if only 30% of the premiums are taken over. There is also a slim chance that the D.C. Department of Insurance may exercise its legal right to take over management of GEICO, though Wallach has not yet suggested it. Whatever happens, the fiasco could well rekindle congressional interest in setting up a federal body to insure insurers the way the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. guarantees the safety of bank deposits. Efforts to set up such a backstopping scheme have never made much headway, but the largest failure in insurance history-or even a cliff...
...workers both on the main campus and at the Medical Area. The drive, which began in 1974 in the Med Area, has met with near-complete success there, but the failure of the University to recognize the area as an appropriate unit for collective bargaining has resulted in a fiasco whose end still seems more than a year...
There is a new and deep concern this year about the historically haphazard way in which the vice-presidential nominees are chosen-after George McGovern's 1972 fiasco with Senator Tom Eagleton, after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, after the ascension of unelected Gerald Ford. A study on the subject, released this week by Harvard's Kennedy Institute, maintained that "the present selection practices contain an inherent and unacceptable degree of risk." The odds are now 1 to 2, the study judges, that the Vice President will one day become President...
...workers both on the main campus and at the Medical Area. The drive, which began in 1974 in the Med Area, has met with near-complete success there, but the failure of the University to recognize the area as an appropriate unit for collective bargaining has resulted in a fiasco whose end still seems more than a year...
...weeks ago, Meadow appeared on WNAC-T.V.'s "Bob Hilton Show." Meadow is sorry he did, however, calling his appearance "a fiasco." "They cheapened what I do. They wanted me to come out and rip off my shirt," Meadow said...