His tendency to go to market soon after developing a concept can certainly misfire.
Cleaning up the bank mess turned out to be the big misfire for the White House this week.
It was to have orbited Eros in January 1999, but a computer glitch ordered Near's rocket to misfire.
The visitors continued to misfire until Lampard put Nicolas Anelka clean through to score with a low finish.
Shortly, Page will be on the earnings call answering questions about the misfire.
At some stage, the private sector starts to misfire as credit becomes difficult for even the biggest companies to raise.
Among the flops under Zucker's watch: the critically scorned Friends spin-off Joey and the costly animated misfire Father of the Pride.
The misfire bailed out Brady, who, despite his lackluster numbers (22-of-36 for 239 yards and two interceptions), scored the game-winning touchdown.
If there is a misfire, the organism becomes inefficient or even dysfunctional.
Some plots misfire, and a few veer close to wishful thinking, but little of this matters, because the structure feels so confident.
If built cleverly, they permit the chip designer to pack more computing power into a small space without causing the chip to misfire.
He had discovered a U.S. Army report suggesting that a military version of the Mossberg twelve-gauge, when dropped on its muzzle, can occasionally misfire.
James Taranto had some fun with an op-ed misfire written for the New York Times last week by a scientist at Boise State University.
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In the most notable North Korean misfire, a Taepodong-2 missile that Pyongyang launched on July 4, 2006, imploded less than 35 seconds after taking off.
Should any attempt at insurrection misfire, they point out, it would be the people of Irbil, not the conference-goers in London, who pay the price.
Translation: I had inherited two bad copies of the genetic misfire, so my risk of an early heart attack--a myocardial infarction--is 70% greater than for the general population.
Obviously, A Good Day to Die Hard has already earned more than each of those aforementioned flops, though, and it shouldn't be written off as a misfire.
But every studio is going to misfire now and then.
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Buffalo Bills kicker Dave Rayner, in the Jets' 28-24 victory Nov. 27, appeared to misfire during his kickoff, which was recovered by then-Jets safety Emmanuel Cook at Buffalo's 36-yard-line.
More important, the political calculus could easily misfire.
But the other part of being Microsoft is that any mistake or misfire makes news, since Microsoft rules the roost in the PC world in a manner that rubs lots of people the wrong way.
But the Knicks did a solid job early on of exploiting the Grizzlies' defensive strategy, which thrives on packing the paint in hopes that opposing perimeter players will misfire when given open looks from deep.
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"I completely understand, especially being here now for three years in the NFL, that this is a business, and the team has its obligations to consider all its options, " said Sanchez, who is 31-22 as a starter but led the Jets to a postseason misfire and 8-8 record last year.
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