Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aspect of the Bush fiasco is that it is a rare instance of definite political payback. That is, Bush did something clearly egregious--put a big $250 cowboy boot right in the old mouth--in calling for price controls, and the voters in the rest of non-Texas America, still a sizable majority, will be quick to pay him back for his short-sighted comments...
...insurgents made their disastrous landing in 1961, but he captures with compassion and accuracy the Kennedy Administration's fundamental miscalculation: the belief in a nonexistent Cuban underground that was only waiting for a signal of support to rise up and overthrow Fidel Castro. Reddin presents the Bay of Pigs fiasco as a dress rehearsal by America's best and brightest for their misjudgments in Viet Nam. Some of the funniest scenes depict the white-collar macho of bureaucrats who react to caution as a sign of deficient manhood. Reddin's cutting strokes are more often subtle, as in brief, oddly...
...whole, Kiely's proposal isn't all that bad for the university, considering its recent posture on the homeless situation in Cambridge and its lack of an institutional response to the Leverett House heating grates fiasco. Harvard would get a few more dorm rooms for its students while Cambridge's neediest citizens would get a roof over their heads...
Ronald Reagan was first informed about the impending firing as he flew to Houston to memorialize the astronauts killed in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. When the rather unseemly and unnecessary fiasco was announced last week, the White House moved quickly to distance itself from it. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "It's Hodel's deal. The President knew about it, but he didn't do anything because he didn't have to do anything...
...blame? Privately, State officials called it a White House fiasco. Publicly, Speakes placed the gaffe firmly at the steps of the State Department. In the end State diplomatically shouldered the blame. "The White House acted on an initial report conveyed by State," said one good soldier. But unhappy officials at Foggy Bottom may have taken some satisfaction from the front-page banner headline splayed across the Friday afternoon edition of the Miami News: DUVALIER HAS FLED HAITI, WHITE HOUSE REPORTS...