fiasco
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We were so excited to assign blame for the Platner fiasco in the first few entries that we forgot to offer anything forward-looking.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
The failure of the hugely competitive exam, along with a separate marking fiasco in high school tests, sparked outrage and fuelled youth protests demanding the education minister's resignation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Another victim of the pit lane penalty fiasco but overall a decent points haul for the McLaren man.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Field, Mr. Tabor contends, was to blame for the fiasco, having bought the wrong cable-laying equipment, hired the wrong ships and employed the wrong captain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
She’d never danced in front of anyone since the bhangra puke fiasco.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
The fiascoes pile up during his full-tilt quest to achieve his dream of being a world champion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The emergency was the latest in a years-long series of fiascoes within L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
When it comes to recent Wall Street fiascoes, it’s hard to beat AT&T’s adventure with Time Warner.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2021
To celebrate such mistakes, mishaps and melees, read on for 10 of the funniest parenting fiascoes that made headlines this year.
From Fox News ● Dec. 30, 2020
What happened next changed history and resulted in one of America's most tragic medical fiascoes.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
If the fiascos Jobs encountered were largely of his own making, the successes often had to do with luck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
Live Nation, the group behind Ticketmaster and countless controversies surrounding ticket fiascos, is facing a Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit later this week.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
Lawmakers repeatedly asked what went wrong in the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank fiascos.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2023
The financial fiascos weren’t enough to cancel the Crypties.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
When one of these fiascos occurs the cause can many times be referred to the fact that the student did not have enough facts at his command.
From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Kitson, Harry D.
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