Word: fiascos
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...fact, many of the societal changes forged by the Revolution have already been abandoned in an effort to survive without Soviet assistance. The Cuban tourism industry, for instance, one of the few bright spots in the island's economic fiasco, is closed off to Cuban citizens. Cubans cannot visit the Tropicana, eat at a restaurant, or go to the nicest strips of Varadero beach, which today is used instead by Spanish, Canadian and German tourists...
Certainly not like the disruptive service we got during the last spectacle, the 1991 fiasco in the Persian Gulf. Nothing can beat Peter Arnett with a satellite dish strapped to his head, fading in and out of our living rooms like a distress call on the Starship Enterprise...
...writer and director of the tight, punchy stunner of a film, "Reservoir Dogs," apparently Stone changed the script so much that Tarantino only wanted to be credited with the original idea, not the script itself. I don't blame him for wanting to be as far removed from this fiasco as possible...
Like MacArthur returning to the Phillipines, so did Dan Quayle return to the San Fransisco Commonwealth Club. The club was the site of the infamous Murphy Brown speech, a seeming fiasco that led to the pilloring of Quayle for months afterward. Now Quayle feels vindicated, and with reason...
...tried mightily to dodge. His major goal so far has been to avoid, at almost all costs, a replay of the Mariel boat lift. That 1980 exodus dumped 125,000 refugees in five months into Florida and from there to other Southern states unready to receive them. The fiasco badly hurt not only President Carter but also Bill Clinton, who believes he was defeated for re-election as Governor of Arkansas in part because Cuban refugees sent to Fort Chaffee rioted, and dozens of people were injured. Even after reclaiming the statehouse in 1982 and going on to the presidency...