fiasco
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The not-so-Super Rams return to the scene of that fiasco on Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Every failure is fuel for the next fiasco.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
While the women were still reeling from the voice-to-text fiasco, another drama was about to unfold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
He described the fiasco surrounding the proposal as "a sad and reproachable series of events".
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Word of a fiasco at a place in the East called Ball’s Bluff came while people were still stunned by the news from Bull Run.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
One analogy is to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law, enacted after the WorldCom and Enron fiascoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Those fiascoes were overtaken in the public eye by Alarcon’s worker-turned-enemy, L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
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
The push for air travel reform from the administration follows a spate of public fiascos.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
Musk also hasn’t internalized the lesson taught by such marketing fiascos as the introduction of new Coke in 1985, which the Coca-Cola Co. itself labels “one of the most memorable marketing blunders ever.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 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 Harry D. Kitson
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