Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...French got a big laugh out of the U.S. presidential election fiasco. Americans are always giving lessons on democracy to the rest of the world, they chortled, but can't even count ballots. Worst of all, they make a travesty of popular government by giving the leadership of the free world to the guy who came in second. On a smaller scale, but with huge political implications, the same thing happened in Paris last week: Socialist Bert-rand Delanoë won only 49.6% of the popular vote but picked up a majority of municipal council seats because of a precinct...
...guru will enjoy some R. and R. in Florida. He has little choice. This is a relaxed and productive White House (Damn it!), and chief of staff ANDY CARD wants it to stay that way. Top-level staff members--most of whom lost their postelection break to the Florida fiasco--are being told they must take time off. Card needles his staff members daily, insisting they submit vacation schedules as proof that they are headed for the BarcaLounger. The forced march has turned some victims downright mawkish. "It's wonderful," says press secretary ARI FLEISCHER, who will attend...
Equally worrisome is the damage to the FBI. "It's a real kick in the balls," says a former CIA official, for an agency that has long angled for primacy in counterintelligence and that used the Ames fiasco to expand its reach into all the CIA's Russia brief. Because the FBI got access to many more CIA files, so did Hanssen. "The FBI used the Ames case to expand their jurisdiction," says another former intelligence official. "In the aftermath, they produced a situation in which whatever this guy was doing, he was more likely to learn more...
...investigating that very fiasco. The specifics are mostly dry accounting stuff, and are being held pretty close to the agency's vest at this point - but the Wall Street Journal reports that "commission staff are investigating Lucent's procedures for booking sales, in particular its use of 'nonrecurring credits,' or one-time discounts, given to customers, as well as Lucent's accounting treatment of software-licensing agreements...
...while it was more convenient for students, selling the sourcebooks out of the Science Center was a fiasco as well, Wong said...