Word: fiascos
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...politics is a way of life at most American companies, but few firms manage to make more of a spectacle of on-the-job intrigues than the RCA Corp. In the past six years, the diversified broadcasting and electronics giant (1980 sales: $8 billion) has stumbled from one management fiasco to the next. These included: the awkward ousting of the son of the company's founder from his job as chairman; the dumping of his successor for failing to file his income taxes; the dismissal of a company president after only six months on the job; the firing...
...Ohira in Japan; the Shah in Egypt; and Tito, who one thought would live forever. In the background, like presiding ghosts, the hostages in Iran serve as emblems of national impotence; Walter Cronkite's counting of the days growing weary and meaningless among Milquetoast threats and a tragic rescue fiasco. As if to sustain the world's heartache, the year heads toward Christmas with the killing of a Beatle...
...five, six, even seven chances before the ball finally went in. An alarmed Kleinfelder switched back to her 1-3-1 defense, but it was too late. By now 25 points behind, Harvard all but conceded defeat, and sent out its bench to ride out the fiasco...
...film maker bites the bullet on his $36 million fiasco...
...unintelligible) as those of The Deer Hunter, but without the Viet Nam film's claim of political significance. With its repetitions and ellipses, Heaven's Gate resembles random sequences from some lost eight-hour masterwork. As of this week, though, it is something sadder: a four-hour fiasco...