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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The technical screw-up was so upsetting that it may have skewed my judgment about the movie as a whole.
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What if Google is just one big screw-up away from causing mayhem?
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This is really the tale of a onetime screw-up who made good.
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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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.
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.
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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