Word: fiascoes
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...constant prediction over the past decade. But the Hamptons is not only famous for attracting people who try to outdo each other in opulence; it also draws people who love to complain about a place they can't stop visiting. Manhattan ad exec Neilan Tyree, 42, says the Grubman fiasco shows how unpleasant the Hamptons has become since his youthful summers. It is now, he says, like "Los Angeles without a job. Greenwich, Connecticut, on crystal meth." Of course, he will be there this weekend, but, he says, "I'm practically hyperventilating at the thought...
...firms. Korea has done more to reform its profligate ways but the government still props up sick companies with state funds, discouraging the kind of restructuring that would create more competitive businesses. Taiwan sailed through the crisis in 1997, but it is now reckoning with a Thai-style banking fiasco, albeit a less serious one. Taiwanese banks lent heavily to a sinking property sector, and now around 15% of their loans aren't being serviced...
...leader of the free world or the capital of our most lucrative trade partner, only since I obtained my F-1 visa have I learned how to spell Massachusetts or locate Pennsylvania on a map. I didn’t know about the electoral college until the fiasco in November and I still have no idea whose heads are carved into Mount Rushmore. I don’t know and I don’t care. Like any good American, I know that ignorance is bliss, and that is one thing we have in common on both sides...
...latest FBI caper is a Keystone Kops fiasco. If the FBI were a business, those responsible would be fired on the spot." PAT OLIVER Boca Raton...
...exactly, retorts one World War II veteran who is among those leading the campaign to Save the Mall. Cpl. John Graves calls the memorial, as it is currently designed, "a grandiose fiasco, designed to destroy the heart of our National Mall to memorialize those of us who served in World War II." He is joined by other veterans, one of whom announced in May he would give up his Purple Heart if plans went forward to build the currently proposed monument. Veterans and conservationists are joined by environmentalists, who fear building the memorial in the Mall could disrupt local ecosystems...