One is the recording label's EMI, sort of the most screwed-up label out there.
She oozed all over the stage to Sexomatic, belted out I Can't Wait To Meetchu to her maker (only to be answered by a very heavy downpour), and pleased the crowd no-end with the ode to screwed-up lovin', Still.
It's much easier to believe--and probably true--that they screwed up, as an addicted gambler might.
No matter how much a financial-services executive has screwed up, people are willing to give them money to manage and positions of responsibility.
Sadik-Khan hasn't screwed up, but she has ruffled plenty of feathers.
In an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes, " Zinni -- who served as commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East until 2000 -- said top Pentagon officials "screwed up" by committing too few troops to secure Iraq's borders and stabilize the country after the U.S.-led invasion last year.
"We feel like we're prisoners here now because the market is so screwed up because of this, " the 80-year-old retired Navy captain said.
The more screwed up the product is, the more service is required -- and the more money the company makes.
Before this debacle, the stereotype was that Obama may have screwed up on the economy but he had a good foreign-policy record.
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The prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, was caught on tape telling party colleagues that his government, re-elected in June this year, had lied, screwed up and done nothing.
"Small non-locking blades are not very practical killing weapons, as screwed up as the TSA is, I'm on their side on this one, " wrote a reader with the handle MeBee.
"A high-value asset has been blown, a major operation has been screwed up, " said the Intelligence Bureau official.
Oddly enough, while Sony seems to be encouraging all OEMs to get going on a recall, we still haven't seen a recall for Sony's own laptops -- which seem to be just as defective as the rest of them, peep that picture above -- but hopefully Sony will be fessing up to those soon so we can all be one big, happy screwed-by-Sony family.
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But when people foul up in a spectacular fashion, especially when it involves a personal matter, Americans will give them a break and a second chance -- as long as they stand up like a man or a woman, admit they screwed up, say they're sorry and look like they damn well mean it.
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