Word: messing
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...data to an Oklahoma journalist. Yet he still managed to rise to the post of FBI associate deputy director for investigation. In the 1980s, Revell came under scrutiny after he received calls from Oliver North, who was seeking to sidetrack federal probes that threatened to reveal the Iran-contra mess. But no proof surfaced that Revell meddled in the cases. Then, in 1988, Revell acknowledged in a Senate hearing that the FBI had been misled by an undercover informer whose "concocted" data led to a two-year surveillance program against Americans opposed to U.S. policies in Central America. After being...
...choice, supports the right of workers to strike, promises to make polluters clean up their mess and "opposes war," according to a voters' pamphlet statement...
...blame is an integral part of American culture (Where else do people point fingers for damage done by a hurricane? Where else, assuming current rates of growth, are lawyers expected to outnumber nonlawyers by the end of next century?), it is appropriate to assign blame for baseball's current mess. It clearly belongs to owners...
CRITICS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRAtion call the affair "Iraqgate." The Administration's defenders call it a "witch hunt." Others call it a confusing mess. But whatever the term, the overeager attempts by the Reagan and Bush administrations to make friends with Iraq in the years before the Persian Gulf War -- and later attempts to contain the political damage of that failed policy -- have become yet another problem for George Bush as he struggles against increasingly heavy odds to win a second term...
This isn't to say that the size of the deficit is completely irrelevant. We've outlined why we think cutting the deficit shouldn't be Job One now, but no one can defend Reagan's and Bush's getting us into this mess in the first place. While Perot overestimates the horrors of deficit spending, it's clear that deficits do cause some problems, and that we'd be better off if the overall debt were smaller...