Word: snafuing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when news broke late last week that two top nominees for the Treasury Department were withdrawing their names from consideration for undisclosed personal reasons, what ordinarily might have been dismissed as a harmless staffing snafu became the latest cause for unease among those watching Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Geithner - who at 47 still looks like the Doogie Howser of economists - has had difficulty filling out his roster of lieutenants; he wasn't helped when Paul Volcker, the old lion who got the U.S. out of its last deep recession, described Treasury's staffing woes as "shameful." (See TIME...
...listed on an official registry at specific polling stations in order to cast ballots. Iraqi officials acknowledged that some internally displaced voters were confused about where they should vote and wound up turned away from polling stations, despite a public awareness campaign aimed at avoiding just such a snafu. But overall, Iraqi officials said, that was a minor issue that would not seriously impact the vote...
...everyone agreed, however, that it was such a minor snafu. At polling station No. 65 in Baghdad's Karada district, volunteer observer Hafa'a Latif said the number of people who were turned away could call the vote into question...
...shows got better: Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano and Dorothy Hamill made a particularly mismatched lineup in 1992, as did Michael Jackson and a group of 3,500 children the following year. The show's most memorable glitch, of course, wasn't a casting choice: Janet Jackson's infamous wardrobe snafu in 2004 sparked an FCC crackdown on racy content and prompted networks to go to tape delay for major live events...
...Washington Burris Comes In from the Cold Roland Burris, welcome to the U.S. Senate. Democrats backed away from their opposition to embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's pick for the state's vacant seat, announcing that Burris had resolved a paperwork snafu and, barring GOP objections, would be sworn in within days. Senate leaders had attempted to dissuade the governor from naming a new junior Senator, arguing that any appointee would be tainted by Blagojevich's arrest on charges that he conspired to sell or trade the seat for personal gain. Burris, who replaces Obama as the body's lone...