Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Still, in an interview with CNN last month, Obama addressed the issue head-on, saying "I think the important thing is not experience per se. Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney had the best resumes in Washington and initiated a fiasco in Iraq." Obama's advisers are looking to turn the experience question around on his possible Democratic rivals as well, because many of them voted for the Iraq War in 2002 and have since been criticizing it. "Barack Obama in 2002 gives a speech and says that the war will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and cost thousands...
...young guy in charge of the technology group to develop core software and media technologies, which we have not been good at," Stringer told TIME. Likewise, the components and semiconductor divisions have a new boss. And a global product-safety officer will make sure a battery fiasco doesn't recur. Out of this crisis, Stringer promised, "we're going to come out stronger and better organized...
...Reading Wars, what comes next will be dreary times-tables recitals in unison, dull new books that fail to inspire understanding, and drill, drill, drill, much like the unhappy scenes in many of today's "Reading First" classrooms. And that would be just another kind of math fiasco--of the red variety. Kids will learn their times tables for sure, but they'll also learn to hate math...
...young guy in charge of the technology group to develop core software and media technologies, which we have not been good at," Stringer told TIME last week. Likewise, the components and semiconductor divisions have a new boss. And a global product-safety officer will make sure a battery fiasco doesn't recur. Out of this crisis, Stringer promised, "we're going to come out stronger and better organized...
...distasteful as it is. The end will not have been brought about by stolen elections, an unprovoked and disastrous war breeding more terrorism, suspension of habeas corpus, state support of torture or a dangerous and ballooning federal deficit. It's curious that Republicans might be toppled by the Foley fiasco. Seemingly, only a sex scandal can make voters take notice. Judy Matysik Minneapolis, Minnesota...