For so long as there have been scandals and screw-ups in government, presidential underlings inhabiting the White House have always reacted in the same, predictable and defensive manner protect the President at any and all costs, particularly should that scandal or screw-up come during an election year.
Each screw-up resulted in being pulled aside and reamed out for not figuring it all out on my own.
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In France or in Germany or in England or in Japan or in China, if you screw up by 19--and in France, don't get into a grand ecole--you're finished for life.
This year's trading screw-ups have been particularly public in nature.
My common sense would have told me that Groupon was in the first phase of screw-up-lie-die.
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.
This seemed almost reckless in its certainty, with screw shots, multi-cushion shots and backspin that appeared impossible to mortals.
Whitten was named to the post in October 2010, months after two big privacy screw-ups by the company: Wi-Spy and Buzz.
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.
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.
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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