Word: snafus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They met, they talked and they accomplished almost nothing -- a classic case of low expectations barely met. Indeed, the only real drama at last week's Moscow summit involved a series of security and computer snafus. Some loftily titled Americans, including Secretary of State Warren Christopher, were denied entry to important meetings because they lacked the proper credentials, or so some overzealous Russian bodyguards said. Then just before last Wednesday's joint press conference with Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton was left without his prepared opening statement. A speechwriter's floppy disk had failed. But that too was small beer since...
...difficult to tick off a long list of the Clinton Adminitration's foreign policy snafus. Yet it is meaningless to criticize the adminstration's strategies if we cannot also acknowledge foreign policy successes...
...Hyogo prefecture, which includes Kobe, neglected to make the necessary request for aid to the national armed forces, which would provide 16,000 rescuers by week's end. The national government could also have stepped in sooner to aid with coordination. Soldiers who did arrive were plagued by communications snafus: at midnight on Tuesday, one field commander was unable to get radio instructions and had to drive to the Nishinomiya city hall for information. In the context of such disarray, some Kobe residents wondered whether their rescuers were dangerously dispirited...
...from constituents trying to contact them -- charge that the mail holdups could be illegal and plan to investigate the postal system. The House subcommittee on postal operations has summoned Runyon to testify at a hearing about the problems this week. The General Accounting Office plans an investigation of service snafus. "Our Postal Service is a disaster," says Missouri Democrat William Clay, chairman of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. "And it is as disheartening nationwide as it is in Washington...
...announcement was another blow for airport boosters smarting from three earlier postponements, snafus and design changes that have put the gargantuan project, bigger than Manhattan, seven months behind schedule and boosted the cost by hundreds of millions. It left them wondering if the $3.2 billion project -- the nation's first big new airport in 20 years -- was jinxed. Cynics who have long questioned the need for such an extravagant facility chuckled that D.I.A. should be renamed D.O.A. -- dead on arrival...