Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...imagine the demand for tickets changes so dramatically that the ticketing office can't estimate what side people should be on. And how was it that even last week many of my fellow seniors had no clue whether tickets were on sale? The entire ticketing fiasco spoilt my memories of my last Game as a student, an occasion I should have treasured. Ah well. At least this newspaper got an Ibis out of the whole thing...
...emerging as one of the first lessons learned from this election fiasco: Democrats can't afford to step on military toes...
...this, it should be something in the way of an American political housecleaning. Toxins need to be flushed out of the system from time to time. Over the years, we have built up too much poison in our politics and government. We should seize the occasion of this fiasco, one way or another, to rinse...
...election madness lasts long enough to put the financial markets in a serious slide, there's a possibility Greenspan will intervene with a rate cut that would put worriers in a sunnier mood. He did it in the fall of 1998, when the Asian crisis-cum-Long Term Capital fiasco was threatening to ruin his boom, and he'll be tempted to do it again if Al Gore and George W. Bush's lawyers start to do the same...
...while the rest of us may be flustered by the Florida fiasco, Glasser and Slade are confident and ready to cast their ballots next month. For the party faithful who've been chosen as electors there's no such thing as "maybe" - their bags are already packed for Tallahassee. Florida electors are not required to vote for any particular candidate, but listening to these two, you don't get the sense either party is at all tempted by the opposition...