Each screw-up resulted in being pulled aside and reamed out for not figuring it all out on my own.

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This year's trading screw-ups have been particularly public in nature.

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My common sense would have told me that Groupon was in the first phase of screw-up-lie-die.

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The bureaucratic screw-ups of the late Blair imperium, mostly in the Home Office, had threatened to revive an old caricature of Labour incompetence.

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His note blamed "European shortage of the Nintendo Wii Consoles, " so we'll be watching to see if this is part of a larger problem of Nintendo delivery in Europe, or simply a screw-up on the part of Play.com.

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This seemed almost reckless in its certainty, with screw shots, multi-cushion shots and backspin that appeared impossible to mortals.

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Whitten was named to the post in October 2010, months after two big privacy screw-ups by the company: Wi-Spy and Buzz.

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The basic design is the same -- it's a chunky slab of thick, ribbed, soft-touch plastic and rubber, with a sizable chrome screw holding the backplate in place.

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In other words, despite everything the dot-coms did to screw up the business, the e-commerce market is continuing to cook along, meeting all of the most optimistic predictions for explosive growth.

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Also, the Phillips-Wilkins incident has convinced me not to screw over anyone who can afford to buy billboards in major metropolitan areas.

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