Word: snafus
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Worse, distribution of whatever goods have come close to the Turkish frontier has been held up by some appalling snafus. Late in the week 21 planeloads of relief supplies had been delivered to the eastern Turkish town of Diyarbakir, but much of the material failed to get past the airport. Other supplies are rotting in the rain aboard trucks stuck on the dirt roads of southeastern Turkey...
...kind of misadventure that critics had predicted would occur on a wide and bewildering scale once the oddly assorted multinational forces went into battle. Snafus in lines of command, in the coordination of differently trained and equipped soldiers, in attempts to simply speak with one another -- all had been pointed up as potentially fatal pitfalls facing such an ungainly coalition. Yet the so-called AirLand strategy, adopted in the 1980s by NATO as a counter to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, proved to be more than a knockout military punch. Because NATO relies on a central command of joint...
...Oscars, Emmys or Tonys. Among the Big Four show-biz awards, the Grammys have the most unfortunate reputation for often making saccharine choices that toady shamelessly to the marketplace. The past winners have included such unremarkable talents as Debby Boone and Toto. With the latest snafus, NARAS president Greene has been busy defending and explaining how members cast their lot for a total of 77 awards in 27 different fields. "It's a very complicated process," Greene admits. "It's too damn complicated. I don't know if God intended music to be classified...
...slick had traveled across an 1,800-sq.-mi. area. To stop its advance, "skimming" vessels sucked up the crude for transfer to dredging barges. Onshore, ten-man crews hosed down rocks with heated seawater. The two-pronged drive to clear sea and shore was plagued by snafus and logistical problems. As the weathered oil hardened into a debris-laden "mousse," the Soviet skimming ship found that the crude was too thick for its pumps and managed to recover only a few hundred barrels. And as the point of the oil slick advanced, it stretched supply lines farther and farther...
When the Tower nomination foundered, an inordinate share of the blame began falling on Sununu for his lack of Washington experience and his abrasive personality. Many of the Tower snafus, however, were beyond Sununu's control, as are most of the tensions in the structure of the Bush White House. Several Administration officials expect that this spring training crisis could even strengthen Sununu's hand as Bush realizes he needs someone to run stronger interference for him. Already Sununu has adopted the system used by Bush's vice-presidential chief of staff, in which subordinates are under strict orders...