| And he should not be making excuses for his idiot cronies or relying on politesse and bureaucratic snafus to explain why he was late when the crisis hit. |
| You heard the panicky tones of operatives flooded with calls from the field about technical snafus and mass confusion. |
| Social movements, such as unions and peasant groups, form its political base. Until this year such groups believed Mr Morales was on their side, and forgave his verbal snafus and missteps. |
| Somehow, the media learned of those snafus, and stories characterizing them as wasteful and irresponsible began to circulate. |
| Soon the entire situation spirals out of control into a tragicomic mess of blunders, language barriers, bureaucratic snafus, and spin control. |
| There are surely a few snafus in these statistics, but this work has transformed understanding of the history of wealth, with eye-popping results. |
