Word: fiascos
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...international outrage over such dissembling intensified, China's top leaders were forced to address this health and public-relations fiasco late last week. "We have clearly told the government the international community doesn't trust your figures," says Henk Bekedam, China representative for the WHO, which could have added Beijing to its travel-advisory list, alongside Guangdong province and Hong Kong. The WHO then estimated the capital's SARS patients at 100 to 200?five times more than the government acknowledged?based on hospital visits and other data. On Friday, state media reported that China's new President, Hu Jintao...
...classified $17 to $19 billion replacement system, supposed to be completed around 2005, has gotten so far off schedule that the military could suffer an "imagery gap" as aging satellites in the current system flicker out. The so-called Future Imagery Architecture program, managed by Boeing Co. - and nicknamed "FIASCO," a pun on its acronym, by some insiders - is also running well over budget even as the aerospace giant has had to scale back some promised new capabilities, officials said. That's led some U.S. officials to charge that Boeing had underbid in an aggressive effort to win the contract...
...voyeuristic boss who turns into a giant penis. I must admit that I’m kind of surprised at Michelangelo, however. I mean it’s OBVIOUS in the first movie that April has a thing for Raphael, not to mention that whole Casey Jones fiasco. I know Mike’s supposed to be “the party dude,” but he’s screwing two friends over. Well, I guess three if you count April. Also, the art was very well done, for something that totally destroyed a sizeable chunk of happy...
...widely publicized result of the Paulin fiasco was the department’s public embrace of free speech as its highest principle. But the contentious process within the department as it decided how to respond to the imbroglio left another footprint: a lingering anxiety about the Summers-New liaison and its implications. As the most hands-on president in generations, Summers poses a particular challenge for the department: his views and initiatives can be of substantial importance, but are typically communicated through intermediaries or general public statements. He is at once omnipresent and remote. Thus, while the department...
...mean a CIA that once again steps beyond the realm of collecting secrets to intervening forcibly in the affairs of foreign states. In that area, the agency's history has often been one of blunders and worse, from Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s through the Bay of Pigs fiasco under John F. Kennedy to the Nicaraguan war that led to the Iran-contra debacle in the '80s. Some longtime intelligence watchers are wondering whether a reinvigorated paramilitary wing of the CIA could be a mixed blessing for America once again. And the military itself is not too pleased...