Word: fiascos
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...August 2003 before being postponed - is an embarrassment for the top players behind it. Deutsche Telekom and DaimlerChrysler had banked on the system as a possible export. Since Toll Collect refuses to pay full damages for the €6.5 billion shortfall in revenues, it is also a further fiasco for the government, which rashly earmarked part of that sum for much-needed investments in infrastructure in the 2004 budget. Although the consortium has since declared it has successfully completed...
Incoming Cabot HoCo Co-Chairs Adriana Dolgetta ’05 and Bridget E. B. Deacon ’05 said that Cabot formed its own Department of War and chose to become allies with Mather in response to what they called the “fish fiasco...
...fish are the Cabot House symbol, so when we found out about Kirkland’s actions, we were forced to take the entire fiasco as an obvious affront to our House and all that it stands for,” they wrote in an e-mail...
...Super Bowl fiasco showed how tough it is to assemble a giant mainstream spectacle for today's niched audience. Even the audience reaction ranged from deep offense to bemusement. Bill Cleaver, of Pittsboro, N.C., watched the performance with his wife Julia and their daughter Annie, 10. "I'm not a Boy Scout," he said, "but I know in public what is appropriate manners and what is vulgarity." Then again, TiVo, the digital-video-recorder maker, said the event was the most replayed ever among its users. In a TIME/CNN poll, 47% of respondents said the incident marked...
...withdrawal. "It is better to side with the people than to cling to power," Khatami's brother Reza, leader of the largest reformist party, told TIME. "The next parliament will be undemocratic, but that doesn't mean democracy in Iran has failed." Maybe not, but judging by the election fiasco, its success is still a long...