Word: fiascoes
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...primary cause of the sectioning fiasco was the HASCS sectioning program, Harvey said...
...Idaho, and may have held a grudge against the company. In an interview with the Spokane paper in 1995, Barbee claimed AT&T was an immoral company that mistreated Christian white men. The Atlanta bomb went off in the AT&T Global Village. Understandably cautious after the Richard Jewell fiasco, an FBI spokesman cautioned today that it is "entirely premature to link the Spokane bombings to the Olympic Park bombing...
...line, not in line. If people can't get to the buffet table, they're not coming back." On Wednesday, AT&T made an announcement that AOL's woes have caused a large number of customers to defect to its WorldNet service. And to add to the fiasco, New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco said today he may file a lawsuit alleging AOL has engaged in "false advertising" and "repeated and persistent fraud." AOL has said it will upgrade its network to handle the increased number of members who stay on longer because of the new flat-rate plan...
...Nations a high profile. Such trends, however, should not dictate the bounds of objective analysis of the organization. The frequently unreported successes of the UN should also be remembered. It has been credited with the peaceful settlement of 172 regional conflicts since 1945. For every Bosnian quagmire or Somalian fiasco dominating headlines, there exist the examples of Cambodia's post-civil war transition to normalcy and South Africa's first universal election, both of which were coordinated by the UN. In fact, the UN has enabled free and fair elections in forty-five countries in the past 50 years...
Those who slog through the entire novel will find it difficult to tell whether Yglesias wants to portray his Dr. Neruda as hero, fool or, when he investigates the circumstances leading to Gene's fiasco, charlatan. With first-person narration, it is left to the reader to make that judgment. But what to make of a man who tells his lover, "Diane, if you review what you just said carefully, I really believe you'll see a contradiction." This is a man to track down evil...