Word: disarray
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...With some of its biggest rivals in disarray, Hyundai sees an enticing opportunity to build on its progress overseas. Slammed by rising costs and slumping sales, General Motors recently shocked investors by predicting a first-quarter loss, and Ford followed this month by downgrading its 2005 profit forecast. Chung is determined to keep the pressure on. He's moving Hyundai's product line away from its traditional small cars into larger, higher-profit vehicles. In October, Hyundai unveiled a small sport-utility vehicle, the Tucson, and later this year, the company will launch a new high-end sedan...
...Disarray, disability and a death in the Kremlin had forced postponement of the Warsaw Pact's biennial summit meeting for nearly a year. So by the time convoys of ZIL and Chaika limousines were finally streaking through the yellow brick streets of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, the meeting last week was embarrassingly overdue. The Political Consultative Committee, made up of Communist Party leaders from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union, had been expected to gather in January. But Mikhail Gorbachev's predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko, was too ill to travel then, and indeed died only...
...Editors: Your article stressed "disarray in diplomacy" vis-ŕ-vis Egypt and Italy [TERRORISM, Oct. 28]. President Reagan is the elected head not of those two nations but of the U.S. His leadership correctly reflected his constitutional obligation to defend American lives at home and abroad. Marvin Alisky Tempe, Ariz...
Then, too: Was it in fact the Bomb that brought the war to an end? The Japanese government was in total disarray in the summer of 1945, so Hiroshima and Nagasaki may merely have provided an excuse for a surrender. The Soviets entered the war on Aug. 8--after Hiroshima and before Nagasaki. The Japanese may have concluded that it would be better to surrender to the Americans than to risk prolonging the war and allowing the Soviets to take more spoils. The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey conducted just after the war concluded that the atom bombings were not decisive...
...There are some underlying issues...regarding the conditions under which she both ran the school and left it,” Sullivan says of Evans’ leadership at CRLS. “In some cases, it is described as disarray...