Word: fiascoes
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...Only the Pentagon could turn a $60 million helicopter - the European-made EH-101 - into a $480 million whirlybird. The Pentagon's Defense Science Board, in a report released earlier this month, didn't mince words in assigning blame for the fiasco. "The schedule was acknowledged at the start to be high-risk and very aggressive," it said, "driven by post-9/11 global war on terror urgency." The costs started climbing as the White House informed the Pentagon and its contractors of its wish list of encrypted video, telephone and electronic capabilities that it wanted aboard the new birds...
...embattled PM may yet have one last hurrah. As the Nakagawa fiasco was playing out in Rome, Hillary Clinton was visiting Tokyo on her first overseas tour as U.S. Secretary of State. Clinton announced that Aso on Feb. 24 will visit Washington to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama. That Aso was selected as the first foreign leader to visit Obama's White House offers a ray of hope that the world's two largest economies are cooperating to solve the economic crisis. But the honor was hardly an unvarnished vote of confidence. During her Japan stopover, Clinton took...
...Harvard’s plan to eliminate all fun also includes the following programs: cable TV, party grants, the Girl Talk fiasco, inviting Insane Clown Posse to YardFest 2009, appropriating Nazi gold, not admitting any hot girls, the Lamont Burrito Disaster of 2005, lethargic calendar reform, Vanserg, serving squash at 78.3 percent of meals, and the Core...
Calgary, Alberta • speech in which George W. Bush will "share his thoughts" about his eight fiasco-riddled years as "the Decider" will be given...
...ones--are, like laws and sausages, not something civilians necessarily want to see made. Still, Ricks' reporting and insight from the front lines of Iraq support his conclusion that the U.S. is likely to be fighting there until at least 2015. His first book on the war, 2006's Fiasco, was a bleak tale of martial malfeasance. His second suggests there may be light at the end of the tunnel, but if there is, it's flickering--and a long...