The union is currently reviled perhaps like never before: a euro debacle, debt swamping the continent, expansion stalled, sluggish economies going backwards, euroscepticism on the rise.
1. ANNOUNCEMENTS The chair stated that he was pleased with the choice of digestive biscuits following the debacle of the last meeting's "overly jazzy" iced rings.
Bad luck has also played a role in this debacle, though not as great as some at the club would like to pretend and certainly no more than any other league struggler.
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He left in 2002 in the wake of the ITV Digital debacle.
A local Tory MSP, John Lamont, has questioned its cost and compared its construction to "the trams debacle" in Edinburgh when, in 2014, a new tram system opened three years behind schedule and more than two times over budget.
Brentford, who would have come up with them but for a last-day debacle, followed them this May and look far from out of their depth.
But it might well be that the abrasiveness and tough talk of the Bush administration, softened though it has been by the debacle in Iraq, will suit a French president keen on stirring up national pride by tough stances on Iran, for instance.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 3.14pm ET20 14 Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) has a great Comment is Free entry on the winners and losers of the shutdown debacle.
As Jonathan Eyal, of the Royal United Services Institute, puts it: "It was not the lack of sufficient knowledge about history and religion which led to the Iraqi debacle, but the lack of restraint among politicians who had all the relevant information at their fingertips".
Labor, exhausted by the marathon, by the perverse acceleration of time that had aged a still youthful government, fundamentally worn down by the rolling moral panics and the instant referendums of the social media age, was simply trying to move on past the debacles of the Rudd/Gillard civil war, including the debacle of an election campaign that began to make sense only in its closing week.
