Surely, a screw-up this gigantic can only be attributed to some extremely smart people.
My common sense would have told me that Groupon was in the first phase of screw-up-lie-die.
All of which was dutifully reported by the Vice reporters, with no mention of their screw-up.
Groupon is certainly not the only company where one or more phases of screw-up-lie-die are being played out.
''This was a screw-up, and we're angry and upset about it, '' AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein told The Associated Press.
Each screw-up resulted in being pulled aside and reamed out for not figuring it all out on my own.
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Smug BBC Chairman Lord Patten blamed the "horrible screw-up" on Chinese-style management practices.
The technical screw-up was so upsetting that it may have skewed my judgment about the movie as a whole.
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This is really the tale of a onetime screw-up who made good.
"Here's the screw-up: You made a promise that you'd deliver this, and you missed three weeks later, " Welch spouted, jumping on the bandwagon of attacks on Immelt.
But privately, Obama told his national security team that the incident represented "a screw-up that could have been disastrous, " according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Despite the screw-up, the mega-merger is being touted as the prototype for what the utility world could look like one with financial muscle that is able to increase its leverage in the market.
Then there's what Abrahamson calls the anticipatory screw-up.
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.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, worried there could be a repeat of what he branded the "royal screw-up" of last month's primary election, urged New Yorkers on Sunday to report any problems at polling sites Tuesday by calling 311 or posting messages online.
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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.
There are, of course, many what-ifs to take into consideration that can never be proven, but by reversing the ill-gotten win that Seattle notched (the referees admitted to the screw-up and the labor dispute was settled before any other games were played) the Green Bay Packers would currently have 12 wins and automatically have a lock on the second seed with the potential to still grab the first seed.
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.
When you do something like this there is a chance, albeit a small one that you can screw up your device- if you're worried about this, don't do it.
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.
Inside the mediocre lobby we staked out a position near the numbered boxes, innocuously pretending to screw up our change-of-address forms so that we had to start over again a dozen times.
Now, before this turkey gets too nervous that Bo will escape and screw up this pardon -- (laughter) -- or before I change my mind, I hereby pardon "Courage" so that he can live out the rest of his days in peace and tranquility in Disneyland.
He warmed up his audience with rugby references, warmed the cockles of Labour hearts with his take on last week's Budget - "the best George Osborne hoped to do was not to screw it up like he did last year" - and went on the attack over growth predictions that fell flat, borrowing predictions that have soared.
But the dangers don't come from the good guys -- they come from the laggards who screw things up.
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Leveling the platform is a particularly important step -- after all, if things are off by mere fractions of an inch, it can screw prints up completely.
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