Word: snafus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snapped up by Eisner back in 1995, has suffered its own turmoil and a ratings free fall (this past season brought the network the indignity of finishing behind Fox in the 18-to-49 demographic). The launch of Disney's cruise line has been delayed by shipyard snafus...
...Walt Disney Co. is also taking to sea, a move that both scares and encourages this $7.5 billion industry. Disney is launching a pair of $370 million ships that will each carry 1,760 passengers when the vessels arrive later this year. (Construction snafus have delayed delivery of the first, the Disney Magic, from March to July.) Backed by a $130 million marketing budget, these floating Mouse traps will offer three- and four-day excursions as part of Disney World vacations. The good news is that Disney's money will sell the industry to a new generation of travelers...
...plane. What is unknown is whether Blassie, then a 24-year-old Air Force Academy graduate, now rests beneath a sacred marble slab in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. That possibility got a boost last week as veterans detailed their hunch that, through snafus and an eagerness to anoint a Vietnam-era vet as an unknown, the Pentagon ignored evidence that could have determined if the six bones buried at Arlington are Blassie's. The two World Wars and Korea generated thousands of unknown candidates for the tomb. But by Vietnam, improved forensic science had precluded...
...high-tech gloss, some aspects of warfare will apparently not change. Soldiers still spent hours building sand tables, miniature re-creations of the battlefield built in the dirt. EXFOR leaders still carried plenty of thumbtacks and acetate overlay maps to use as back-ups during the inevitable computer snafus. And commanders still insisted that once the "knife fight" of close-in combat began, soldiers must revert to traditional hand signals and radio commands...
...tested for drug use. Moreover, professional testers say that idiosyncrasies in sampling time or diet could alter results seriously. Some herbal teas, for example, can give false indications of heroin use. Personal Health and Hygiene, the company formed by Brown to market his kit, maintains that all potential snafus will be explained and that all test results will be confirmed prior to release to customers. No word on what advice Brown will give parents trying to get their children to give up a urine sample...