Word: messes
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...whole lot of garbage behind, literally: Manila is inundated with uncollected trash due to bad planning by Estrada's administration. (Ironically, and possibly symbolically, the rankest part of town is now EDSA, where hundreds of thousands of Filipinos managed to evict a President and also make quite a mess...
...entire mess flows not only from a deregulation plan that did not live up to the word deregulation but also from California's failure to complete a single large power plant over the past 10 years, even as Silicon Valley boomed and the state economy expanded 34%. "This is virtually a crisis by design," says Yergin. "At the heart of the problem in California is the lack of new construction...
...long-suffering Democrats trying in vain to defend their party leader. The ugly, all too familiar scene in Washington last week almost made you wonder if Bill Clinton had won that elusive third term. Even as he secured an 11th-hour deal to avoid prosecution in the Lewinsky mess, Clinton was adding a brand-new chapter to his book of scandal...
...limping along in a half-assed fashion typical of the botched deregulation that got the state into this mess. First, Davis set $55 a megawatt hour as a hoped-for price ceiling, which few companies are hewing to, what with prices sky-high and power scarce for the region's foreseeable future. (The state also refused to consider any price flexibility in the contracts, forcing bids up higher to cover the uncertainty...
...preceded by months in a burning media spotlight. Tabloids excitedly chronicled HER PLOT TO GET TOYBOY LOVER TO ALTAR. Paparazzi stalked them in Greece, and the couple had to relocate three times. "It cost us a fortune," Ritchie says. "We couldn't go outdoors. It was a real mess...