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• “After all the time and energy Alex has put into wooing the Yanks, it's hard to see this decision as anything other than a catastrophic cock-up.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “Attention has been drawn to a slight cock-up in the bilingual nature of Welsh Labour's campaign website for the European elections.”

  Welsh political websites, bilingualism and Europe.

• “But cock-up rather than conspiracy seems the likeliest explanation in the absence of any smoking gun.”

  The Guardian: Osama bin Laden: dead, but still a spectre for the world

• “Of all the scenarios in cricket, none is more ripe for cock-up than running between the wickets, and none with more comedic potential than when it involves someone running on behalf of an injured batsman or for the ultimate rib-tickler, both batsmen.”

  The Guardian: Batsmen must stand alone as another quirk of the game does a runner | Mike Selvey

• “I like how you smeared a deliberate and desperate act of courage and foresight as some sort of a policy cock-up.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Flashback: 1993

• “I raised these concerns in a conversation with Dean Bruce Smith on November 7, the day after the final report was released, a meeting I entered armed with a faculty member's innate suspicion of administrators, which suspicion is especially keen during moments of administrative cock-up.”

  The Huffington Post: Feisal G. Mohamed: Inside The U Of I Law School's Book-Cooking Scandal

• “There has either been an administrative cock-up, or the Telegraph's owner was in generous mood at the Tory party conference.”

  The Guardian: Media Monkey's Diary

• “An understandable gambit, incidentally, as there'd been an administrative cock-up at the National Arbitration Tribunal, which had incorrectly referred the whole thing to be dealt with by the coal industry's own conciliation machinery.”

  The Guardian: Girl from Ipanema was not the only bum note struck at a Rio marina | Scott Murray

• “This entire cock-up is FDR's fault for misleading the American public by dressing up a sensible transfer program as an investment scheme, but that doesn't mean we have to stay wrong.”

  Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “This entire cock-up is FDR's fault for misleading the American public by dressing up a sensible transfer program as an investment scheme,”

  Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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