Word: fiascos
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...Above all, last week's test would conquer or confirm worldwide suspicions that Athens was blowing its deadline for the Games. The roof was already three months behind schedule, another dismal detail in a building program plagued by chronic delays and charges of incompetence. Anxious to avoid a p.r. fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state TV. The Deputy Culture Minister nervously smashed a bottle of red wine on the base of the arch and looked skyward. The gods of Olympus answered her silent prayer. The 9,000-ton roof segment moved - just. The closing, fittingly, was excruciatingly slow...
...United Nations AIDS program, UNAIDS, predicts that by 2010, the AIDS epidemic will have left 20 million African children orphaned. If rebel groups or terrorist organizations manage to recruit even a small percentage of these desperate and exploitable youths, we’ll have a regional and international security fiasco on our hands...
Last year’s fiasco certainly bears heavily on the way this year’s party is being...
...Yesterday was a fiasco, man. I got up mad early and came up to South Station, and the police apparently came down and busted them up in because we didn’t have a permit,” he says. “But you know, that’s part of making a music video...
...formed by former President Lee Teng-hui, who quit the KMT in 2000 and now supports independence. The DPP expects to win over alienated voters from the KMT's bentuhua side who are disturbed by their party's histrionic reaction to the election. "The biggest beneficiary of the election fiasco will be the DPP," predicts Tuan Yi-kang, a DPP legislator and strategist. Control of the legislature would grant Chen a freer hand to rewrite the constitution?something Beijing fears is an irreversible step toward formal independence...