Word: snafus
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According to voter complaints collected by Mikulski, who won in the primary, her race didn't appear on ballots in at least three Maryland counties. As a result of snafus like that, a group of voters in the state last week sued to bar use of the machines in November's balloting. And the people of Maryland are not the only ones having second thoughts about electronic voting, the 21st century technology that was supposed to guarantee an end to elections like 2000's, with its outcome depending on subjective calls about hanging and pregnant chads. After that messy conclusion...
...nuts off a Jeep," thinking enviously of the folks who have it easy back in the States - except that his girl friend has joined the WACs, grandpa is shooting rivets onto a battleship and mom is farming harder than Renee Zellweger in "Cold Mountain." And a couple of SNAFUs, including "Private SNAFU vs. Malaria Mike" (Jones, March 44), revived Geisel's Flit villain, the mosquito, to advise soldiers in the South Pacific to keep their beds netted and pants up. (SNAFU's pulchritudinous ass is a frequent target for enemy dive bombers...
When Rosalie becomes involved with Berglan Starker, the multimillionaire father of her friend Bella, she realizes both the difficulty of an illicit affair as well as the emotional snafus liable to arise. When he visits her to help cook dinner, she worries that his presence in her apartment will make her associate it with him in the future...
...inventory clogged with millions of unwanted GameCubes, Nintendo had to suspend production on the boxes for the first nine months of this year. Such operations snafus contributed to the company's first half-yearly loss since going public in 1962. Breaking the firm's profitability streak became an embarrassing black eye for Iwata, who had the great misfortune of taking over the company from legendary CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi a year-and-a-half ago?just as the bottom was falling out. Coming off its worst year in history, the company desperately needs a successful Christmas season...
...marquee race. Republicans fear that a loss would be the only election-night story, a reminder of the 537-vote margin in 2000. Democrats are throwing money into the race as if it's already 2004, sending hundreds of lawyers to monitor ballot troubles. (Bush blamed inept Democrats for snafus on primary day.) Heavyweights, including Bill Clinton, are helping McBride. Party chairman Terry McAuliffe vowed last week, "We're going to knock off one Bush at a time." If it's close, it must be Florida...