Word: fiascoes
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Last year the religious right suffered a fiasco because of George Bush's defeat. Robertson and Reed had assumed early on that Bush would narrowly edge out Clinton. Thus, although they had little affection for Bush, they helped check the movement of social conservatives toward Pat Buchanan. Their expectation was that Christian Coalition would get credit, and legitimacy, for securing the critical margin of support. In exchange, Bush's handlers accepted many of Reed's choices for delegates to the convention and allowed the religious right to pack the platform committee. The upshot: Bush seemed a prisoner of his party...
...latest fiasco couldn't have come at a worse time for NASA. The agency's annual request for money to build Space Station Freedom barely cleared the House earlier this year, and while the Senate had been expected to approve the $22 billion project, support may dwindle...
...News president Lack defends "Cataract Cowboys," calling Southeastern Eye Center's concerns "misplaced." Dateline executive producer Neal Shapiro contends the clinic's attacks come only because Dateline is still "vulnerable" as a result of the GM fiasco. Even the threat of litigation was bad news for image-battered Dateline. Earlier this month, Utah's Orrin Hatch took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to denounce the show for its "false and reckless" claim, aired Aug. 3, that he had introduced legislation that would have benefited a firm in which he holds a financial interest. Dateline's producers...
...mention the role of the counsel's office in several of Clinton's failed nominations, but only the fallout from dismissing the travel office's employees. He felt responsible for the mishandling of the firings and their aftermath. He had forcefully argued that the internal review of the fiasco name names, even though this meant that he would have to reveal that he had told the First Lady about the problems in the travel office and that his junior associate from Little Rock, Bill Kennedy, had called...
...Operation Rescue try to stop the Gulf War, which came with a loss of life that most abortion clinics would find hard to top. Where are the "pro-lifers" in the Somalia fiasco? It's possible that they are filling sandbags in Bangladesh in hopes of lessening the human toll of the next great flood there, but I somehow doubt...