Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Just when things seemed to be stabilizing, another FEMA fiasco would light up the news wires. Last Thursday, as the Red Cross began distributing its own debit cards, thousands stood for hours in the 93° heat outside the Astrodome in Houston for FEMA cards that never came. A day earlier, Brown had heralded his agency's cards as a way to "empower" survivors "to start rebuilding their lives." But the agency scrapped the plan late Thursday, saying it would be more efficient for the government to deposit funds directly into evacuees' bank accounts...
Congress has found that the combat readiness of U.S. Special Forces is far below acceptable levels and that equipment shortages, despite the recent infusion of dollars, are getting worse. A 1980 investigation into the Desert One fiasco faulted the Pentagon for having available only eight specially equipped helicopters to transport the rescue force when "at least" ten were needed. Today the Air Force has only seven. Although the Pentagon has ordered ten more, "the main transport programs are hopelessly behind schedule and over cost," charges Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee...
Responding to this fiasco, Calixto quickly contacted various Harvard agencies as well as China’s trademark council and authorities to deal with the matter...
What’s alarming about the fast food finger fiasco isn’t just that it involved a woman allegedly inserting a disembodied finger into her own bowl of chili, but that she assumedly did so as part of a concocted get-rich-quick scheme. True, I make an assumption here about Ayala’s motives, but when she hired an attorney and threatened to sue immediately after reporting her fraudulent claim, Ayala made that assumption a safe...
...says a top aide to the Shanghai municipal government. "It scared them to see how quickly crowds can form." Another district aide says, "The leaders are nervous. They are doing everything to stop protests from happening again." The strategy worked in 1989, when Shanghai's leaders avoided a fiasco similar to Beijing's Tiananmen Massacre by persuading students to return to their dorms for the sake of the city's stability. This time around, officials in China's financial capital can only hope the crackdown will compel its citizens to get back to business as usual...