Word: snafus
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...failure, in February 2005, happened after two of the three arms that hold the interceptor in place in its silo didn't fully retract during launch because a part had corroded. The Missile Defense Agency penalized the Boeing Co., the system's developer, $107 million for the string of snafus. Pentagon audits also slammed Raytheon Corp., which builds the $40 million interceptor, for shoddy work. "The contractor cannot build a consistent and reliable product," the GAO said in a March report...
...good news is a relief for Republicans like Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who in January was besieged by elderly voters in his state angry over snafus in the program. Today he's hearing from seniors "who are raving about the money they're now saving on their monthly prescription drug plans," Coleman says. "The program is working...
...doing is actually effective.” Mary Eirich, principal of the Baldwin School, said that she thinks standardized testing will continue to be a fixture of the school system. “We’ve had MCAS mistakes before. We’ve had major snafus,” she said. “[But] I think that standardized testing is going to be here for quite a while.” —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...office in 1998, the first thing he did was to radically change they way Florida's youngest students were taught by ending social promotion and demanding high-stakes achievement tests. He also eventually got a general merit pay system passed, but its implementation has long been stymied by bureacratic snafus, teacher opposition and a lack of funding. So with only nine months left in his term, the popular governor must now convince state lawmakers of a sweeping vision that includes the nation's first statewide program linking teacher pay directly with students' test performance - as well as the first statewide...
...incompletely. After Bush delivered his war-on-terrorism defense of the program, however, Democrats seemed to have lost their stomach for battle. "I'm not sure that's a winning issue for Democrats," party strategist Harold Ickes said. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid preferred to focus on Medicare snafus and what he called G.O.P. corruption...