Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...benefit. Clearly, the pressure was on. Not surprisingly, the involved parties swiftly reached an agreement—featuring gradual price increases and the involvement of third-party dealers—to save Muscovite face. Several lessons and comparisons can be drawn following this New Year’s freeze fiasco...
...that mistakes were made or frauds committed without his knowledge, but as head of the research team and lead author of the published results, he's stuck with the responsibility. No matter what the investigation concludes about his two other landmark papers, Hwang will be remembered for the fiasco that embarrassed his university and the South Korean government--and deepened the public's unease and ambivalence about stem cells and human cloning...
...little bit…dare I say it?...touching. (Insert vomit here.) Oh Mischa, the things you do to me!The past three episodes have each had a defining dramatic moment of this kind: Marissa’s nightmare about the shooting; Ryan’s punching-bag fiasco; and this kaleidoscopic flashback. Even though this one was effective, the act needs to stop.Seriously, what’s next? Will Julie be overcome by a flood of repressed memories from her trailer-park childhood? If that prediction materializes, I’m so money…and so incredibly...
...Luckily, you’ve already completed the first step in deflecting a potential fiasco: planning ahead. When you are forced to scrounge for something at the last minute, you will most likely end up with a gift that is less than satisfactory...
...blend of experience with a critical perspective”—a phrase that leapt from Haddock’s mouth at least twice during a disappointing UC debate where the moderators, armed with smarm, outshined the back-slappingly platitudinous candidates. Taking the cake, however, from the debate fiasco was an epiphany of Voith’s. Wrap your mind around this: “What I’m really gonna get done is I’m gonna take a comprehensive look at what the UC is doing now and make changes in the future that will...