What do you do if, like me, you commit an office etiquette no-no, and say or do the wrong thing at the wrong time?
If you do the wrong thing, admit and correct it.
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We are not trying to do the wrong thing.
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They are also giving political cover to Democrats gleeful at the chance to conceal their readiness to do the wrong thing on national security by lining up behind McCain and Company, whose number includes former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Not understanding the first point about the markets, they go off and do entirely the wrong thing.
The one interesting aspect of the Wikileaks inspired drive to re-look at data protection is that it may cause us to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
We are just not going to do that, because it would be the wrong thing to do.
Have some sort of alert, block it, do something that keeps the wrong thing from happening.
And we are in a point right now where we need to grow the economy, we need to create jobs, and defaulting on our obligations as the United States of America is precisely the wrong thing to do if our goal is to grow the economy and create jobs.
"The implication for the 1990s is that chasing growth per se, in terms of earnings and revenue, really was the wrong thing to do, " says Ramezani, lead author of the study, which appeared in a recent issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.
The old advice "was exactly the wrong thing to do, " and could have contributed to some of the increased cases, Galina said.
But he argued that the UK government's policy of cutting its way out of the deficit was "the wrong thing to do", warning "we are in a pre-1930s situation at the moment and if we don't reverse that we could be heading for a depression".
But I withdrew from it, because I realized it was the wrong thing to do.
He said "it is the wrong thing to do" and "not in the national interest".
They now know "that is absolutely the wrong thing to do, " Hudnall said.
Brushing the problem under the carpet would be the wrong thing to do.
That would be precisely the wrong thing to do, would it not?
He told the BBC such a plan of action would be "absolutely the wrong thing to do" and a "sign of failure".
And not when we know that taking this money out of the pockets of working people is exactly the wrong thing to do to get our economy growing faster.
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And that would be the wrong thing to do for our economy, it would be bad for middle-class families, and it would be bad for businesses that depend on family spending.
Now, if you break it, you made a mistake, it's the wrong thing to do, but you own it and then you got to fix it and do something with it.
"In my view it was totally the wrong thing to do - and why she did the interview this morning when she was slurring words - it shouldn't have happened, " he said.
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So, sympathetic as I am to those who prefer a fight over compromise, as much as the political wisdom may dictate fighting over solving problems, it would be the wrong thing to do.
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He told the chamber 54, 000 young people were in the S2 cohort vanguard for the Curriculum for Excellence and to "let them down and desert their aspirations would be the wrong thing to do".
They do not get defensive about it, rather they are willing to look objectively at their mistake, recognize what they did wrong, and understand why their choice or actions were the wrong thing to do.
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The only thing Apple Chief Executive SteveJobsSteve Jobs can do wrong now is fail to meet the high expectations he has created for himself and his company.
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