Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of them were never billed, because the HEW computers were not working on their cases. Says Leo Kornfeld, a former computer executive hired by Califano to clean up the mess: "If a student was in default, we had no system for detecting it. He could even take out a second loan while in default on the first loan. We wouldn't know about...
Gradually the French are learning to make their duty a little more bearable. They send out wine tasters to sample the local vintages and buy the best bottles they can find for their mess. They also have what is known as the "Air France raiding party," a group that drives up to Beirut daily to pick up delicacies, newspapers and mail from Paris...
...directed, Reynolds plays Sonny Lawson, a shady real estate man who learns he has only a year to live. Even if the film were successful, diehard Reynolds devotees wouldn't buy it: The End aspires to tastelessness and its hero is a jerk. Since the movie is a mess, Reynolds...
...Prime Minister John Vorster is speeding up the rate at which the Bantustan--the 13 per cent of the land area which has been designated as the black majority's share of the country--are being given independence, so that soon "it will be impossible to unscramble this scrambled mess," Brutus said...
...generally accepted, in fact, that the Navy must become a better manager of its multibillion-dollar shipbuilding effort, if for no other reason than that the current mess has seriously hurt the service's case for more vessels. Edward ("Randy") Jayne, of the Office of Management and Budget, bluntly warned some of the Navy's top officers at a recent conference: "If you remember nothing else, please remember this. The present shipbuilding difficulties represent in my view the single most influential reason why President Carter chose not to accelerate Navy ship purchases in the 1979 budget...