Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tried mightily to dodge. His major goal so far has been to avoid, at almost all costs, a replay of the Mariel boat lift. That 1980 exodus dumped 125,000 refugees in five months into Florida and from there to other Southern states unready to receive them. The fiasco badly hurt not only President Carter but also Bill Clinton, who believes he was defeated for re-election as Governor of Arkansas in part because Cuban refugees sent to Fort Chaffee rioted, and dozens of people were injured. Even after reclaiming the statehouse in 1982 and going on to the presidency...
Most Russians were not buying Mavrodi's antigovernment argument: even such opponents of President Boris Yeltsin as Communist Party leader Gennadi Zugyanov and aspiring presidential candidate Alexander Rutskoi remained silent about the debacle and the government's role. The MMM fiasco has already prodded the government into more energetic regulation of the country's unfettered capital markets, but how effective it will be is anyone's guess. The Cabinet announced it would direct the Finance Ministry to move toward establishing regulatory procedures, but that responsibility is shared with the central bank and the State Property Committee. It is far from...
...response, summed up by Wisconsin Representative Toby Roth: "This thing smells to high heaven." Expect the rhetoric to grow worse, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. In further hearings this week, Republicans will get a crack at officials who allegedly had a hand in the White House/Treasury fiasco...
...monarchy, Prince Charles' TV confession was a fiasco. It's hard to fathom how the embattled heir to the throne could replay 1992, the year his mother called her annus horribilis, but he has managed it. The tattle about his relationship with the married -- and Roman Catholic -- Camilla Parker Bowles had died down, but the scandal is back on the front page. Charles also showed a blithe disregard for his nation's constitution in revealing that he wants the coronation oath changed so he can be defender of all faiths, not just the Church of England -- breaking a 460-year...
Although we cannot see Zelman's face throughout part of his shoe-tying fiasco, we understand what this whole thing is supposed to communicate. The shoe tying is taken further when Gus finds a peice of cardboard in one shoe and an old pack of cigarettes stuffed into the other one. This scene creates the picture of Gus as a version Lenny from John Steinbeck's Of Mice...