Word: messing
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When top Navy and Pentagon officials belatedly learned of the Avenger mess, they downplayed it and ignored the implications. That led Cheney last April to assure Congress that the program was on track in both time and cost. After he learned that this was untrue, two high Navy officers were removed from supervising the contract and censured; in addition, an admiral was fired, and the Pentagon's top procurement officer resigned. The Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation of whether the contractors overcharged the Navy. And the Pentagon said it will try to recover the funds already spent...
Last week the Bush Administration disclosed that Moscow too was "thinking ) innovatively" about ways to unravel the gulf mess. President Mikhail Gorbachev surprised his American counterpart with an early-morning phone call to discuss possible outs, which the Administration did not describe. While downplaying these proposals, Washington was gratified that after speaking with Baker about the stalemate in Geneva, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sent Baghdad his own message, echoing the U.S. contention that Iraq must immediately choose war or peace...
...What led you to take such an aggressive role in unraveling the banking mess...
...skills led Congress not only to put him in charge of the RTC as well as the FDIC in 1989 but also to insulate him from outside pressures. That helped a lot when Seidman and Treasury officials began feuding publicly about how best to clean up the S&L mess. At one point the Treasury floated a proposal that the bailout be financed by a fee on bank deposits. Seidman ridiculed the idea as "the reverse toaster theory -- instead of the bank giving you a toaster, you give one to them." The White House started letting it be known that...
About 100 people at Ohio State University showed their support for the attack, shouting "Mess with the best; die like the rest" and "Liberate Kuwait...