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Word: fiascoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high prices charged by such establishments can be avoided, but only at a cost. It might mean waltzing in the State House, which is nice but intimidating (and believe me, they keep all the interesting offices locked when they rent it out). Or worse, it could be a fiasco like this year's Citystep formal at the Children's Museum, which was overcrowded, overlit and understaffed. It's also just not as much fun climbing on the giant telephone if you're wearing spike heels, a strapless bra and a lot of sequins...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Formal Functions | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

...primary cause of the sectioning fiasco was the HASCS sectioning program, Harvey said...

Author: By Joshua H. Simon, | Title: Expos Sections In Chaos After HASCS Foul-Up | 2/5/1997 | See Source »

...Idaho, and may have held a grudge against the company. In an interview with the Spokane paper in 1995, Barbee claimed AT&T was an immoral company that mistreated Christian white men. The Atlanta bomb went off in the AT&T Global Village. Understandably cautious after the Richard Jewell fiasco, an FBI spokesman cautioned today that it is "entirely premature to link the Spokane bombings to the Olympic Park bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spokane Bomb Suspects Investigated in Olympic Blast | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...line, not in line. If people can't get to the buffet table, they're not coming back." On Wednesday, AT&T made an announcement that AOL's woes have caused a large number of customers to defect to its WorldNet service. And to add to the fiasco, New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco said today he may file a lawsuit alleging AOL has engaged in "false advertising" and "repeated and persistent fraud." AOL has said it will upgrade its network to handle the increased number of members who stay on longer because of the new flat-rate plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bad Month for AOL | 1/24/1997 | See Source »

...Nations a high profile. Such trends, however, should not dictate the bounds of objective analysis of the organization. The frequently unreported successes of the UN should also be remembered. It has been credited with the peaceful settlement of 172 regional conflicts since 1945. For every Bosnian quagmire or Somalian fiasco dominating headlines, there exist the examples of Cambodia's post-civil war transition to normalcy and South Africa's first universal election, both of which were coordinated by the UN. In fact, the UN has enabled free and fair elections in forty-five countries in the past 50 years...

Author: By Odette Lienau and Siddharth Mohandas, S | Title: Why the United Nations Matters | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

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