Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...then, the crown jewel of the voting fiasco, the ineptly designed Palm Beach "butterfly" ballot, a ballot that caused thousands of primarily minority voters to wail that they may have given their precious vote to (gasp!) Pat Buchanan. Even Pat "The Nazi" Buchanan admits that these votes were not for him (probably out of some sort of desire to keep all of his votes "ethnically pure"), but we need not just take his word for it. Statisticians put the probability that fewer than 1743 (the margin between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Gore before this first recount...
...capacity for evil. The thought would not occur to them. It is an impossibility. They, evil? Ironically, theirs is much the same dangerous innocence for which the prophetic novelist Graham Greene ("The Quiet American") arraigned Americans in Indochina in the mid-1950s, well before they had entered into their fiasco there...
...Crimson shield its Achilles' heel? In all honesty, Coach Murphy is probably doing the best he can by not depending on special teams as much and by allowing his young kickers to mature. For argument's sake, though, I offer three alternative solutions to the field goal fiasco...
...ironic that the people who abhor Big Government want to pillory Susan Bailey, the new head of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration [BUSINESS, Sept. 18], for not protecting them from the Firestone-Ford fiasco? Everyone wants to be independent--until the crud hits the fan. Then they want to know why the government didn't act to protect them. PASQUALE JOHN PIACENTE Newington, Conn...