fiascos

The way one takes responsibility for these fiascos is not by blithely declaring, "my bad," but by resigning.

Balkinization 2004

Robert Zoellick, who doesn’t seem to have done the country any good as US Trade Representative or as Deputy Secretary of State, but who also has the rare distinction of having served at a high level of the Bush administration without directly causing any major fiascos is set to head the World Bank.

Matthew Yglesias » Sweet Mediocrity 2007

BLITZER: Howie, let me ask -- I was going to just pick up, Judy, and ask Howie about -- he's had about a week to digest the impact of the Geraldo Rivera and Peter Arnett -- I don't know if you want to call them "fiascos" or "episodes," journalistic episodes, that occurred.

CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2003 2003

In his conclusion, noting the multiple instances of traffic fiascos across the country as well as mass power outages and roof collapses, he aptly states: "...this season has dramatically illustrated, in both the U.S. and Europe, how vulnerable we are to severe winter conditions."

Cloud streets, Hawaii calls, Commutageddon, communication, and climate change Jason Samenow 2011

Risk-takers such as the Green Day-scored American Idiot can't survive it closes at the end of April, and corporate fiascos such as Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark threaten to turn the Great White Way into a global joke.

The Book of Mormon – review 2011

The current economic downturn and the fiascos in Afghanistan and Iraq have drastically dwindled the appeal of American exceptionalism.

Matthew Yglesias » The European Bogeyman 2009

The man on Main Street looks at these fiascos and says, with some justice, that here were a bunch of greedy crooks who were powerful enough to take thousands of innocent employees, customers, and investors down with them, not to mention the millions affected by the worldwide financial crisis.

Paul R. Lawrence: The Fall Of Corporate Leadership Paul R. Lawrence 2010

Yet, in other places, attempts to intimidate demonstrators turned into violent fiascos.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Eventually, if memory serves me well, a sign-up system was adopted in order to avoid future potluck menu fiascos.

In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

Eventually, if memory serves me well, a sign-up system was adopted in order to avoid future potluck menu fiascos.

In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011