Word: fiascos
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...forward to defend the Star Wars' technical feasibility. The pledge against the program, laden with signatures of Nobel Prize winners, comes from those who know about space technology and its limits and who have the moral courage to tell the world that Star Wars is an ethical and practical fiasco...
...office last October, but has earned nearly $3.6 million in cassette sales thus far. Dune, a big-budget bomb last Christmas, has made $7.5 million in sales to video stores and has been on Billboard's Top 40 chart for 13 weeks. Even the most famous box-office fiasco of all, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, has made $3 million in home video, twice as much as it earned in two abortive theatrical releases...
...writers and artists he meets in Prague have all been silenced and repressed by the government. Sex is their outlet and anodyne. Zuckerman wants to discuss literature; his hosts want him to join in the fun. Anomalies multiply, while the American's mission rapidly descends toward fiasco...
...losses and pursue other leads, the nation struggled with the disturbing implications of the Walker case and other recent spy arrests. Suddenly, ordinary Americans seemed all too willing to betray their country, not for ideology, as in Stalin's early days, but for money, prestige and thrills. The Walker fiasco also made the U.S. acutely aware of its growing vulnerability to spies. More Soviet agents are operating in the U.S. than ever before, and the number of military and technological secrets is growing exponentially. Says Retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former director of the National Security Agency and deputy director...
...securities the firm supposedly had in its portfolio had disappeared. The scandal led to the failure of Cincinnati's Home State Savings Bank, which had invested as much as $150 million in E.S.M. That in turn sparked a run on savings institutions across Ohio. A month after the E.S.M. fiasco came the collapse of several divisions of Bevill, Bresler & Schulman, a New Jersey firm that traded heavily in Government securities. Customers suffered losses of at least $198 million, and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company with fraud...