Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLUMBIA at DARTMOUTH--This could be the upset pick for this week. One could imagine Columbia rebounding off the 69-0 Rutgers fiasco and surprising the Big Green. One could imagine the Lions, who nearly won this game last year, getting their Veer offense together and beating up on the Dartmouth defense. One could imagine Dartmouth falling apart at home for the first time all year. And one could imagine "Boats" having a C-minus median. Dartmouth 21, Columbia...
...agreement capped a classic corporate public relations fiasco for Firestone - and a number of personal tragedies for others. Complaints on the 500s started rolling in several years ago. In July the NHTSA recommended that Firestone recall all the 500s still on the road. The company, which had continued producing some of the tires until early this year, refused. Recent information released by NHTSA suggested that 41 deaths and 65 injuries were connected with 500-series tire failures. While the evidence seemed conclusive, Firestone argued all along that no specific defects in the tire had ever been proved...
PERHAPS THE MOST discouraging aspect of the Philadelphia fiasco was the editorial response from the local media, whose members are composed primarily of white, cautious newswriters and editors. These papers make money because of the numerous middle-class white subscribers throughout Philadelphia and its expansive suburbs. The media reflected the moral casuistry of its readership, failing to face the essential moral question that begged to be raised throughout the days surrounding the event: What is wrong with a society that causes alienated, frustrated groups of people such as the members of MOVE to arise? If our society is as perfect...
That's the endless gas battle "I never thought," said Senator Russell Long, in an appropriate tone of disbelief, "the conferees could take a House bill favored by the consumers, and a Senate bill favored by the producers, and work out a fiasco opposed by both. But they have clearly succeeded in doing...
There is plenty of blame to be shared in this three-ring tax fiasco. The White House staff blames Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman for letting his committee spin out of control and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal for ineffective and halfhearted lobbying. The Treasury Department blames Ullman for bending meekly with shifting political breezes and the White House staff for not paying attention to the changes in committee sentiment. Ullman mostly blames the White House staff and the President. "Carter has a singular view of things and says he always wants the ideal and the ultimate," complains Ullman...