Word: imbroglio
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...much a scandal as an imbroglio of incompetence--potentially of significance, but in fact, not. It's a comedy of errors and clowns of a lower order, and without any larger consequences. It's encouraging that everybody on all sides understands that privacy is a value that ought to be respected...
...charge is frivolous--the list is almost entirely made up of faceless bureaucrats--the principles at stake are not. What makes this more than just another inside-the-Beltway imbroglio is the fear that the Clinton White House may have misused the FBI just months after the Administration, in the wake of the travel-office scandal, swore such a thing would never happen again. When a President harnesses the power of America's premier law-enforcement agency to political ends, he rides roughshod over the Constitution and revisits the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover. Is this what Clinton...
These names, to be sure, do not constitute anyone's idea of a celebrity A-list. It would be comforting to assume that the Collins--Random House imbroglio arose because the publisher finally felt shame at the prospect of putting out more bad prose under a big name. But it is equally possible, as Collins claims, that Random House decided the market for brand-label fiction was collapsing (or at least the market for the Joan Collins brand, once Dynasty left the air in 1989) and that the publisher could never earn back the $4 million it had promised...
WASHINGTON WAS SHUT down by snow, Congress and the White House were locked in budget combat, and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor last week was talking about...bananas. Kantor announced a cease-fire in a yearlong imbroglio with banana producers Colombia and Costa Rica. In the past, he said, the two countries had joined with the 12-nation European Union to create trade policies that have hurt American commercial interests. Never mind that few bananas are grown in the U.S. or that only a handful of American jobs was at stake. Forget too that major U.S. producers Del Monte...
...French authorities. The Armed Islamic Group is barbaric and savage; its way of achieving goals is to murder innocent and helpless people. The only way of dealing with such savagery is with an iron fist. We should not surrender an inch of ground. Khalid Al-Moosa London The Algerian imbroglio is like a jigsaw puzzle, difficult to solve. Between the government in Algeria and the militant Islamic Salvation Front there may be no lesser evil. But the most important issue is, Should we watch unconcerned the emergence of what could be another Khomeini in the world's most volatile region...