ill-fated

• “Referring to the ill-fated takeover of the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos, Aznar said in 2010 that the world must support Israel because "if it goes down, we all go down.”

  The Huffington Post: Dovid Efune: Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing The Jewish Future

• “The OPEN sign is off for good at Olives Cafe & Wine Bar aka the ill-fated Il Buffone in downtown Edmonds.”

  The Seattle Times

• “The layoffs comes less than three months after H-P's ill-fated TouchPad, touted as a competitor to Apple Inc.'s iPad, first went on sale.”

  The Wall Street Journal: H-P Starts Layoffs in WebOS Unit

• “Hewlett-Packard Co. raised eyebrows last month when it slashed the price of its ill-fated tablet computer less than two months after it hit the market.”

  The Wall Street Journal: RIM Loses More Ground

• “The cash equities, equity capital markets and mergers-and-acquisitions units—legacies of the ill-fated 2007 acquisition of ABN Amro—are currently loss-making and will be closed or sold.”

  The Wall Street Journal: RBS Bids to Shrink to Glory

• “Like the ill-fated British Light Brigade's charge against the Russians in the Crimean War, Pittsburgh's strategy was a suicide mission.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Breaking Down the NFL's Best Weekend

• “Last fall, Laura Benanti played a Playboy bunny on the ill-fated NBC show "The Playboy Club.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Former Bunny Takes Up Ukulele

• “Shortly after the ill-fated acquisition of ABN Amro in 2007, RBS had to be bailed out by the U.K. government, which pumped £45.5 billion $70.5 billion into the lender.”

  The Wall Street Journal: RBS Set to Reveal Cuts

• “Both Paul and Rep. Giffords had unwillingly joined a large, ill-fated club: people of all ages with traumatic brain injuries.”

  The Huffington Post: Diane Ackerman: What My Husband and Gabrielle Giffords Share

• “Bin Laden knew that the inevitable large-scale killings of civilians and blatant neo-imperialist agenda inherent in such ill-fated efforts would radicalize a whole new generation of extremists to bin Laden's cult-like heresy in the name of Islam.”

  The Huffington Post: Stephen Zunes: The Killing of Bin Laden and the Threat of Al Qaeda

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