Word: snafus
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...rapid growth, however, was hard to control. In the words of Markkula, the problem was "to keep the race car on the track." The introduction in 1980 of Apple III, a more powerful version of its predecessor, was a fiasco. The new machines, plagued by production snafus, were full of bugs and had to be withdrawn from the market. Early last year some 40 employees were fired, and the project manager of Apple III resigned: Since then, Apple's growing pains have eased. Sales of a retooled Apple III have improved, and those of the less expensive Apple...
...with the "Daniel Fylstra Computerized Universe Award." Between M.I.T. and the Harvard Business School, he worked for a year as an engineer at Intermetrics, Inc., in Cambridge, Mass., designing software for NASA'S space shuttle and for the European Space Agency. That large bureaucracy, with its predictable snafus, coupled with his own lack of influence, persuaded Fylstra to strike out on his own. Says Fylstra: "I always felt uncomfortable with the system, with the conventional way of doing things...
...Rudy Russo, the chairman of the Board of Assessors, told the council a long tale of bureaucratic delays and contract snafus. "Obviously it's taken us a lot longer than expected, and it may take us a lot longer still," he said...
...high school football tackle, had died of a heart attack. "He was always lifting weights and jogging, and he could bench press 300 Ibs.," said the senior Trerice, a 13-year Air Force veteran. He might have accepted the loss, he said, had it not been for "snafus" in informing the family of Paul's death and in returning his body. His suspicions were also raised by some of Paul's friends on the Ranger; one sent Trerice the message: "Don't let them get away with this...
...especially, it should be an auspicious voyage. No American has been in space since 1975. More important, a successful flight will be vindication for U.S. technology. Two and a half years behind schedule, troubled by seemingly endless snafus and cost overruns that brought the total bill to $9.9 billion, "America's space lemon" finally has a chance to silence scoffers. Just as the 15th century caravels of Christopher Columbus -the shuttle's distant namesake-pointed the way to the New World, so Columbia will open the door to the practical day-to-day use of space...