Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politicians who pride themselves on being so pragmatic, people like Gary Hart, Jerry Brown, and Timothy Wirth--three of the men Rothenberg discusses at length (he discusses to women)--their failure often to get things done politically is striking, as anyone who remembers the Medfly fiasco in California can attest to. Others of this breed seem more sensible, a Tsongas or a Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.). Rothenberg writes of the way similar rhetoric characterizes the neoliberals. That's well enough, but behind this rhetoric there is a distinct lack of the coalition-building and bridge-crossing that makes...
...before the game, the Bruins, no masters of psychological tactics, had been reminding the guests of the February fiasco, as if you need to be reminded about 51-goal losses. So with the giant napping on a three-goal pillow in the fourth quarter, the Crimson was ready for some sweet revenge...
...intransigence from the Syrians, and prolonged the violence." It is not necessary to evaluate thoroughly American policy objectives in the Middle East to see that the Administration's program was handicapped by far more than public outcry. The President's last-ditch attempt to find a scapegoat for his fiasco betrays an awareness of the magnitude of his blunder...
...then that I started counting the days until I could move out. When the family finally returned, I was packed and ready to go to my grandmother's. I told them about the burglar alarm fiasco, and they chuckled when I told them to fire their housekeeper. The toddler immediately recognized me and wanted to go outside and swing, but the now eight-month-old baby had changed so much that I didn't recognize her and she didn't recognize me. When I tried to hold her, she screamed and grabbed for her mother. Some thanks, I thought...
...aftermath of this fiasco, Masson maintains, Freud gradually and subconsciously convinced himself that Emma's bleeding was not caused by the actions of his friend Fliess, but occurred for other reasons. Freud came to believe that her spells of bleeding were Emma's ways of expressing a longing for his presence. Freud wrote that "her episodes of bleeding were hysterical, were occasioned by longing" and that "she became restless during the night because of an unconscious wish to entice me to go there, and since I did not come during the night, she renewed the bleeding, as an unfailing means...