Fiascoes

Three forces -- sky-high gasoline prices, the massive costs of rebuilding the Gulf Coast and ever-gloomier public assessments of the war in Iraq -- have combined to weaken Bush's reputation as a strong leader, and leave him vulnerable to the kind of second-term fiascoes that tend to befall all presidents: think Ronald Reagan and Iran-contra, or Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Los AngelesWhat lessons should the carmaker have learned from recall fiascoes of decades past? ❋ Unknown (2010)

OTOH, what about the fiascoes of Ohio in 2004, and will we ever forget, Florida? ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's not "infrastructure" as in lets ad some bike lanes to your 6 billion dollar fiascoes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Check out our slideshow of Twitter fiascoes that businesses and public figures blamed on interns, aides, translators or assistants (Also see tweets that got people fired and tweets that got people arrested). ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

These are the common characteristics behind all of President Obama's green energy fiascoes—from the bankruptcies of solar company Solyndra and storage firm Beacon Power, to the growing struggles of electric battery makers A123 Systems and Ener1. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Every week, there are major fiascoes in Afghanistan. ❋ William Bradley (2011)

Those fiascoes notwithstanding, the U.S. can in fact wield influence in the constitutional processes that will inevitably emerge from the Arab Spring. ❋ Kurt J. Werthmuller (2011)

What Clinton fails to talk about is the fact that the Waco and Ruby Ridge fiascoes during Clinton's administration lead to Timothy McVeigh. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Travel policies come in handy for unexpected illnesses and typical air-travel weather fiascoes, but they are usually filled with exclusions that often negate coverage for many cancellations. ❋ Scott McCartney (2011)

The ruling, which came after a closed two-month trial, lifted some of the veil of secrecy around the man Russians blame for one of the country's biggest intelligence fiascoes since the end of the Cold War. ❋ Gregory L. White (2011)

Harte's life from the time he left California is a sorry string of fiascoes, many brought on by his own failings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With the ticketing fiascoes surrounding the World Cup in South Asia, the game's administrators risk alienating people who attend games. ❋ Richard Lord (2011)

In the end it took rebranding the party as Conservative-Lite and the fiascoes of the Major government to end Tory rule. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its pared-down, old-school controls avert modern alarm-clock fiascoes: leaving the volume too low or on vibrate or setting the alarm for p.m. instead of a.m. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Between the fiascoes over the Clinton and Obama seats, and MN electing a comedian, the Senate now really is the butt of a joke. — ❋ Unknown (2009)

This system would mitigate fraud, make election challenges much simpler, and help prevent fiascoes like the 2000 Florida election or the 2008 Minnesota Senate election from ever happening again. ❋ Unknown (2009)