Word: snafuing
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...conference in Japan next year, but by that time, its agenda for climactic change could undergo some changes itself. One test case to watch -- new clean air regulations on smog and soot. TIME's Dick Thompson reports that while the Republican-dominated Congress, fresh from its recent disaster relief snafu, is in no mood to cast itself as environmental enemy no. 1, the White House does not want to tarnish its new image as the long-lost, Democratic friend of businesses with dogmatic support for a bill that could suck up to $29 billion annually out of the economy. Expect...
Trust Wall Street to spot a hot investment play in what threatens to become the computer glitch of the century. The snafu--a.k.a. the Millennium Bug--arises because corporate and government computers recognize years by their last two digits, and thus will be unable to tell the year 2000 from 1900. Fixing the problem could cost $600 billion...
David H. Goldbrenner '97 transferred from Cornell University midway through his sophomore year. Because of a bureaucratic snafu, he spent his first 10 days here living on the floor of a Quincy House common room...
...White House aides standing in line to pose in their evening wear for Vanity Fair. When the Clintons' populist presumptions outpaced their skill at scheduling, they left out in the cold hundreds of well-wishers who had been promised a chance to shake the new President's hand. The snafu prompted Hillary Clinton to whisper to her husband on network television, "We just screwed all these people...
...made the same error. Their F-15 pilots were saved from certain death only because an alert ground crew and one pilot noted the flaps weren't moving properly before takeoff. But as Major Donald Lowry Jr., 36, prepared to fly on May 30, 1995, no one noticed the snafu. So Lowry's plane, instead of being lifted into the sky that Memorial Day morning, was pushed into the runway and disintegrated at 250 m.p.h...