Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Juliard to tell that "The Imperial March" was a mistake. Boos, hisses, and the kind of language normally reserved for referees were aimed at the band which as usual took it all in stride. "We try to be light, entertaining, non-chalant," said one band member after the fiasco. "The more crowd response we elicit the better--bad or good...
...rapid growth, however, was hard to control. In the words of Markkula, the problem was "to keep the race car on the track." The introduction in 1980 of Apple III, a more powerful version of its predecessor, was a fiasco. The new machines, plagued by production snafus, were full of bugs and had to be withdrawn from the market. Early last year some 40 employees were fired, and the project manager of Apple III resigned: Since then, Apple's growing pains have eased. Sales of a retooled Apple III have improved, and those of the less expensive Apple...
...Tuesday morning, all federal employees were back at work. The bureaucrats who pay them computed that it would cost more to dock furloughed employees' pay than it would to meet their normal salaries. It was not clear what the fiasco had cost Congress in terms of its already low public esteem. The President's relations with Capitol Hill leaders, whom he had courted so effectively in the past with a soft sell, were surely damaged...
...President won, at two minutes to midnight. But has the Administration learned anything from the near fiasco? Once again, unfortunately, portents are mixed. The Administration still shows a propensity to opt for ill-considered military solutions to complex diplomatic problems. For example, the first reaction by Washington to the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was to increase the size of a U.S. training exercise in the Egyptian desert scheduled for November. Operation Bright Star is being scaled down, in apparent recognition that so suffocating a U.S. embrace could only embarrass Sadat's successor...
...club, they ahve built-in instant recognition value. Barland Jeffreys did this to "96 Tears", Karla DeVito (on her astoundingly titled album, Is this a Cool World or WHAT?) recycled "Midnight Confessions." Last summer's "Stars on 45" melded dozens of these songs into one disco fiasco...