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...conclusion: philosophical conflicts about bureaucratic strategies and efficiencies led to major problems. Infighting between headquarters and regional offices, said the report, effectively stopped the program from going forward. It cast official bickering over procedures and a preoccupation in Washington with saving money in terms of a classic bureaucratic foul-up. Stated the report: "Far from the ideal of top-down management, the program has endured something more akin to management by hung jury...
...Monday night. Though N.C. State led by eight at halftime (on the unexpected outside shooting of 6-ft. 11-in. Thurl Bailey), the Cougars scored the first 15 points of the second half before the country coach, Lewis, 61, inexplicably slowed them down. State began to foul, Houston to miss; Whittenburg and Lowe started lofting distant jump shots. With half a minute left, the score stood tied...
Many have cried that such a move was foul play, and that issues--the true purpose of the gathering--took a back seat to the glamour of the political pageant. And their argument is bolstered by the fact that the straw poll, originally scheduled as the last item on the weekend agenda, was moved earlier in the day, so the results could make the network news and the early Sunday papers...
...Foul ball and game called on account of unforgivable error. If you recheck carefully enough, you'll find that Harvard grad Pete Varney played for a brief spell with the Chicago White...
Many scientists believe there is a common thread in this crazy-quilt weather, some fair, some foul, some just puzzling. It is a phenomenon known in Spanish as El Niño, a reference to the Christ child. Named by the fishermen of Peru and Ecuador, El Niño is a warm current of equatorial water that usually appears around Christmas off western South America. The peculiar ocean movement sharply reduces the fish catch, especially anchovies, which are ground up and sold as meal for livestock and poultry. The present El Niño, which first appeared last June...