Word: snafuing
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...Earlier tonight, the networks were more or less calling Bush DOA even as he lived and breathed. Following the Florida caper, the networks are now not ready to declare Gore dead until the body decomposes: On MSNBC, political analyst Patrick Caddell said that if not for the snafu, the networks would have called the state for Bush by now. But they're going to read the eulogies, anyway, all night if necessary...
Epstein says that if the swag snafu had come up in the course of therapy, he would have asked, "What went through your mind when you saw what he did to the swag? If he was careless about that, does it seem to have some implications for how your relationship is or might...
Officers throughout the ranks offered several explanations why a park crammed with 950 cops could turn into a civic version of Tailhook. Police Commissioner Howard Safir blamed a tactical snafu: "In the past there haven't been large crowds in the park after this event. We should have redeployed resources." As for not leaving their posts, Anthony Miranda, president of the Latino Officers' Association, says, "The department, unfortunately, does intimidate officers to the point that they follow the last order they're given. God forbid that you should have an original creative thought to solve situations...
...STENOGRAPHERS Sophisticated voice-recognition software will replace court reporters and lots of secretaries and executive assistants. Note to self: don't ditch the assistant just yet--technology may cover the grunt work, but who'll cover for you when that report isn't ready or get blamed for the snafu...
...Force inquiry into the mishap obviously couldn't cite pilot error. But humans were to blame. The bevy of experts tending to the aircraft missed the programming snafu because, according to the accident report, "each thought another part of the process was checking for this type of error...