The biggest and most controversial power plant debacle was the $2.9 billion, 2,184-megawatt Dabhol Power project, built by Enron and partners in the 1990's and shut in 2001 in a dispute over rates and late payments with the plant's only customer, the Maharashtra state utility.
This was undoubtedly the worst military disaster suffered by a colonial power since the Italian debacle at Adwa in Ethiopia in 1896.
Conservatives crashed into the walls of power during the Goldwater debacle of 1964, and then breached those walls with Reagan's triumph 16 years later.
Well, I think this whole debacle demonstrates the power of the Internet to report in the wrong way, as opposed to the Tiger Woods incident, which I think demonstrated the Internet's strengths (though it also resulted in my writing the "Choose Two" article I mentioned).
Other agencies pursued larger fines against power merchants after the California debacle.
One of the first ideas floated immediately after Afghanistan's electoral debacle was a "power sharing agreement" between Hamid Karzai and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah.
With much of the advanced industrial world shying away from nuclear power even before the Fukushima debacle, I don't see why energy exporter Iran has otherwise been so adamant about having total control of all aspects of a nuclear energy program even as its economy takes heavy blows from increasingly harsh sanction regimes.
The whole purpose of the War Powers Resolution, enacted after the Vietnam War debacle, was to force Congress to take responsibility for the decision to involve U.S. forces overseas.
Mr. Assad came to power in the wake of another debacle, in September 1970, when Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan sought to topple King Hussein.
The Balmain faction have typically held the power, at least until the costly debacle that has been the stalled redevelopment of the Balmain Leagues Club, now an eyesore on Victoria Road and a political poison pill in the halls of power.
