Word: snafus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hypercritical America, winning a presidential election without having one's name smeared is virtually impossible. Many forces work to expose the personal lives of public officials in America today, including perhaps their own ethical breaches, but we should not provide a demand for the incessant barrage of overblown snafus we now face...
...predicated upon his conception of right and wrong. President Clinton may have had an inexperienced staff. Indeed, he is entitled to the few honest mistakes which characterize any president's first years in office. But the endless list of scandals smearing his administration from day one--the honest "bureaucratic snafus"--cannot be digested without making the connection between Clinton's character and his maligned administration...
That, at least, is the plan. But in the decade since Congress issued its death warrant, the stockpile has proved more wily a foe than Hannibal Lecter. As technical snafus have caused the deadline to be pushed back from 1994 to 2004, the estimated cost of incinerating 3.3 million chemical weapons has soared from $1.7 billion to $12 billion. At the same time, the risk of not destroying the stockpile grows exponentially as the weapons decay...
Administrative snafus and tight dollars all around, however, have hurt the quality of care in Tennessee. TennCare critics say the program is often about managing costs, not care. The worse a patient's medical problems, critics claim, the worse the system works. That is, they contend, because the profits for managed-care groups lie in attracting healthy members who require little or no treatment in a given year. "The experience of people with severe disabilities is that they get poor care because, frankly, the provider hopes they will choose another provider," says Carol Westlake, executive director of the Coalition...
Even so, the shootdown might have been stymied. A secret Pentagon investigative report on the O'Grady incident, which will be reviewed in Congress this week, will fault U.S. intelligence snafus -- and may also criticize the Marines for allowing glory-hungry senior officers to go along on the rescue. At least four hours before the downing, U.S. spy organizations had solid intelligence from signal intercepts that surface-to-air missile sites were in the area O'Grady was flying over, but that information never got to his squadron. Three minutes before the shootdown, the National Security Agency knew sam radars...