Word: fiascos
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France has had to threaten a major blowup in the E.C. to ward off CAP's immediate demise. In light of the Maastricht debacle and the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco, a war over the CAP might cause a complete E.C. meltdown. Then E.C. would come to stand for "Economic Crisis," and Europe would pull the rest of the world economy down with...
...even if we do take him at his word, it's not clear that Bush has come clean about other areas of the fiasco. In 1987, at the apex of the controversy, Bush admitted that he knew about the arms sales themselves, and that the sales were designed in part to secure the release of American hostages. But he said he wouldn't have supported this plan if he had known that Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and George P. Shultz opposed...
Last year's De La Soul fiasco could have been avoided, he said, if they had planned better, received a better price and picked a better venue. Of course, it's this man's job to convince colleges that they need him to promote a successful concert. But considering our track record, I think he might be right...
...eloquent but belated plea for contraception and the irrefutable proof in the New Dead Sea Scrolls that the Jesus of the Gospels was a composite of at least three persons. Meanwhile the Muslim world had lost much of its economic power when the Cold Fusion breakthrough, after the fiasco of its premature announcement, had brought the Oil Age to a sudden end. The time had been ripe for a new religion embodying, as even its severest critics admitted, the best elements of two ancient ones...
Soul-searching debates accompanied the $20 earmarked to publicize a Spin Doctors concert which council treasurer Michael P. Beys '94 helped organize. Pontification on the same scale was absent following the De La Soul fiasco which lost enough money to buy at least 20 kegs of beer for each house. (Which expenditure would have been better for Harvard's social life? Hmmm...