Word: fiascos
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...speech, Clinton said he would not allow the Republicans to slash Medicare to pay for tax cuts, a line he took up again in a speech before 2,200 senior citizens attending the decennial White House Conference on Aging -- as it happened, the day after Dole and Gingrich's fiasco. "The Republicans promised they could balance the budget, cut taxes for the wealthy and leave Medicare and Social Security unharmed," Stephanopoulos told TIME. Clinton made the point more finely in his speech: "It is wrong simply to slash Medicare to pay for tax cuts for people who are well...
...faculty can, however, take a step to keep up on budget matter, and perhaps through a committee's vigilance they can be more successful. No matter, it will keep them more informed, and that is a small step towards avoiding another benefits fiasco...
...knew that Yale was pretty weak going in," Fitzgerald said. "We knew they were a better team outdoors than indoors. But we pretty much knew that unless there was giant fiasco that we should run away with it pretty easily...
...report accuses the Chinese government of restricting religious beliefs, yet nobody has been arrested simply because he believes in a certain religion. After all, having watched the Waco fiasco that took so many innocent lives, couldn't one say that religions in America are perhaps a little too unconstrained...
...mismanagement, the academy has few rivals. Last week the king of all fund-raising foul-ups was unveiled when Yale University admitted that it was returning, at the donor's request, a $20 million gift from Texas oil billionaire Lee M. Bass. Scrambling to put a spin on the fiasco, Yale claimed that giving back the money, intended to endow a new program in Western Civilization, was an act of courage in the face of unreasonable demands. Some critics of the administration claimed a Pyrrhic victory for multiculturalism. At heart, though, it was managerial ineptitude and a clash of egos...