Word: imbroglio
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...corporate imbroglio of four chairmen in six years
Though that was a bold move, the long imbroglio and its aftermath raise some serious doubts about Reagan's ability to handle subordinates. After Sears left, Reagan for months was responsible for an untidy and ineffective operation...
...million, a price far above the market value; other Arab moneymen reportedly arranged a loan for Lance of about $3.5 million. In another case, a group of Arabs, led by a shadowy sheik named Kamal Adham, the former chief of Saudi internal intelligence, touched off a confusing imbroglio in Washington by trying to take over 55-year-old Financial General Bankshares Inc. With assets of $2.3 billion, the holding company owns a chain of twelve banks stretching from Tennessee to New York. After a proxy fight that ended in a narrow defeat for the Arabs, Bankshares' management felt compelled...
...currently being produced by the Harvard Law School Drama Society, boldy pits the bourgeois authority--manifested in the persons of the governor of a Caucasian Village and his wife--against the simple stolidity of the proletariat, in the person of Grusha, their servant girl. The backdrop is the bloody imbroglio of civil war. Grusha, simply and sincerely portrayed by Brooke Stark, retrieves the governor's child. Michael, who has been left behind in the frenzied exodus from the Village. She protects the baby throughout the conflict, risking her personal safety as well as her love for the soldier Simon (Tony...
...return. After vainly arguing with the attaches that he held the reins of authority in Zahedi's absence, Homayoun hurried over to the State Department. The department's Iran desk officer, Henry R. Precht, was sympathetic but unable to help. Reason: Washington was baffled by the imbroglio and did not want to meddle in a family quarrel...