Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France. Customs agents, meanwhile, were ordered to double their vigilance against French "tourists" seeking to smuggle capital out of the country. By week's end, as the initial shock wore off, both the Bourse and the franc were showing signs of recovery. But pessimists saw the "Black Monday" fiasco as just a sample of what might come if Mitterrand attempts to carry out his programs...
...roots of the fiasco stretch back to last July, when Eugenia Charles, 61, was elected Prime Minister of all-black Dominica. Among those she defeated was a predecessor, Patrick John, 44, driven from office in 1979 after a BBC documentary charged that his plans for island industrialization included an oil refinery that would benefit South Africa. John's go-between was said to be Burnett-Alleyne, a convicted smuggler who once recruited mercenaries to invade Barbados. The Charles administration believes the ten Americans, who were apprehended with an arsenal of automatic weapons and plastic explosives, were to enforce...
...whole fiasco is making the Federal Government, which required cities to buy American vehicles to qualify for subsidies, get out of the bus business. Its requirement for wheelchair capabilities, for instance, added to the weight of the new buses and lowered their fuel efficiency. "It was like trying to build a camel by regulation," says a transportation lobbyist. Many cities are renovating GM's 1959-model "new look" bus, long the mainstay of public transportation. Notes a Chicago transit manager: "They're reliable and pretty much all the bugs were out of them." Other cities, including Atlanta, Seattle...
...thing I don't get is why humans think pandas don't know about sex. They keep explaining how it's done, and I half think they'll be showing me illustrated pillows next. O.K., there's the fiasco of Chi-Chi and An-An, who couldn't get it on at the Moscow Zoo a few years back. But would you be relaxed on a honeymoon in Moscow? As for Washington, a covey of environmentalists has been invited to meet me and have some wine and cheese. And after my first date with...
...tempting to the Kremlin, many of the same benefits became available elsewhere-technology from Japan, grain from Argentina, electronic products and computer equipment from France. Today Soviet officials say privately that the Politburo's decision to step up its African activities in 1975 was made easier by the fiasco over the Jackson Amendment, and that the decision to invade Afghanistan in December 1979 was made easier by the fact that SALT II already seemed doomed in the Senate...