Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy debate is turning into a finger-pointing fiasco. While trains and other forms of mass transit choke up with riders and driving in the U.S. declines for the first time in years, Americans go looking for scapegoats. Consumers accuse the oil industry of pushing up prices by holding back supplies. Oilmen blame Washington for snarling them in red tape and overregulation. Congress blames the White House for not providing effective leadership. The President blames the public for not believing that the peril is real...
After the southern trip, the unbearable cold spell, the slump that overstayed its welcome, the doubleheader fiasco versus Columbia and the twin shellings of Larry Brown, these boys are finally peaking. The Harvard baseball team played superbly in its home finale yesterday, defeating Boston College, 7-6, in a game that really wasn't that close...
...Crimson hoop team has never beaten Princeton at Jadwin Gym and last night's fiasco certainly didn't change things, as once again Pete Caril's troops got the better of their Cambridge counterparts, defeating Harvard, 65-60, in a sloppy display of basketball in front of only 1052 dedicated followers...
...various power holders. But the American press was more than simply mistaken in its predictions; the distortion and misunderstanding of the nature of Iranian opposition forces reflected nationally held values and opinions that paved the way for a repetition of the United States's most familiar foreign policy fiasco. The Iran that the press and the U.S. government sought was one that would be westernized along the Shah's U.S. inspired model. At the root of Iranian protest were the twin grievances that Iran engendered--the oppression that the Shah required, and the challenge to cultural and nationalist ideals that...
...Needless to say, we are not happy that improprieties were found," Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, said last week. But he added that procedures have nonetheless improved since the 1976 fiasco...