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Word: fiascos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only is Harvard's decision-making process often paternalistic, it is also frequently ineffective. The recent controversy surrounding Harvard's South African Internship Program highlights the University's institutional and hierarchical arrogance. But the Internship Program fiasco is only one in a long line of decision-making blunders--foul-ups that have embarrassed Harvard and exposed the ruthless corporate attitude underlying Harvard's liberal veneer...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Behind Harvard's Liberal Veneer | 2/5/1986 | See Source »

Still trailing 4-0 last night, the Crimson needed redemption. As the clock ticked down, Harvard was clearly headed for yet another consolation game. Yet another 5:30 fiasco in front of five thousand chattering gossips--a hockey game in a hotel lobby...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: The Nightmare: Never Going to Score Again | 2/4/1986 | See Source »

...that all-important element of my morning routine, the toasted slice bread, has met with more abuse that Caspar Weinberger at a Harvard Forum. Innocent slices of ordinary commercial bread are slowly baking drier than the University plans to make this campus. And all by a gleaming chrome technological fiasco with an industrial-size plug that looks like it was salvaged from one of the early electric chairs...

Author: By Barne C. Ellis, | Title: Charred Mornings | 11/6/1985 | See Source »

...first game was a total fiasco, as the Bruins coasted to an easy 15-2 win over the sleepwalking spikers...

Author: By Barbara VAN Gorder, | Title: Seven Spikers Struggle; Bruins Top Crimson, 3-0 | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

...blame for this cinematic fiasco...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Maxie Misses By a Mile | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

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