1.   Many commentators now say his disastrous policy regarding East Timor, and the weakness he is now demonstrating, have doomed his hopes for re-election.

2.   Market reforms have removed many disastrous policies and bureaucratic obstacles to long-term growth and possibly long-term relief for the poor.

3.   Oil producers seemed unable to change the disastrous policies that led to the price spiral.

4.   The people who encouraged Argentina in its disastrous policy course are now busily rewriting history, blaming the victims.

5.   They let McCarthyism flourish, tolerated J. Edgar Hoover, and pushed a disastrous Vietnam policy.

6.   But his reputation was sullied by an authoritarian rule and disastrous socialist economic policies.

7.   General discontent with Milosevic over his disastrous economic policies and his involvement in several Balkan conflicts grew after he led Yugoslavia into armed confrontation with NATO.

8.   His reputation was sullied by authoritarian rule and disastrous socialist economic policies.

9.   Likewise, Jiang never mentioned the decades of rapacious logging and only briefly noted other environmentally disastrous policies that exacerbated the flooding.

10.   The military government was nearly bankrupt at the time because of disastrous economic policies, and the armed forces were ill-equipped and running low on ammunition.