Apparently, the recorder was still rewinding during the first minutes of the ill-starred flight.

BBC: Ukrainian, Russian papers assess plane crashes

After an ill-starred open letter critical of the Obama administration last year, they take care not to complain publicly.

ECONOMIST: Central and eastern European security

BMW's ill-starred purchase of Rover show how hard it is for them to buy their way into the general market.

ECONOMIST: Germany's cars

During his ill-starred speech to the European Parliament, Mr Berlusconi mockingly reassured his critics that the presidency is only for six months and would soon be over.

ECONOMIST: Berlusconi��s blunder

At Franklin Field later in the 1960s, instead of peddling sausage the plane flying overhead towed a banner reading "Joe Must Go" for the ill-starred Joe Kuharich.

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He recently learned that before his own ill-starred purchase the seller told his staff that the new boss was rich, and that they should save up their grievances until the deal went through.

ECONOMIST: Brazil's labour laws

Let me explain: Hewlett-Packard, which has been in big trouble since Carla Fiorina stepped in as CEO in July 1999, and by February 2005, was forced out, has been a revolving door for inept or ill-starred CEOs.

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Grass sprouts from the rooftops of tall apartment buildings and lambs can be found grazing on these aerial pastures, the occasional ill-starred creature crossing the border of its tiny world and plummeting into traffic, only to be stolen away almost immediately by a hungry citizen.

NEWYORKER: Dear Leader

That play, which starred Ethel Waters as Hagar, a poor, ill-educated black woman who sacrifices everything for her daughter, was also a success.

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