an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up
<noun.act> [ verb ]
cause to be in a state of complete confusion
<verb.change> [ adj ]
snarled or stalled in complete confusion
<adj.all> situation normal--all fucked-up
The objective is to avoid the type of snafu that forced Dukakis out of prime time in 1984, the first year the three networks passed up gavel-to-gavel coverage in favor of an abbreviated approach.
Competitors quickly geared up to take advantage of Lotus's snafu.
And because of a recent snafu committed by a state court of appeals in Houston, Texaco says, its deadline for appealing remains unclear.
Before the development snafu, the Navy had valued the P-7 project, from start to finish, at about $8 billion.
The embarrassing snafu, which has cost investors seven cents a share, stems from a tax provision enacted in 1936.
But a mechanical snafu also may have damped consumer enthusiasm.
As U.S. officials see it, much of the anti-Americanism, including the anger over the supercomputer snafu, is part of the local political drama.
After Marilyn Pearl was forced to the end of the line because of a paper-work snafu last April, her husband wrote to Judge Merhige assailing the process as "a waste of time and fraud."