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In the debt-ceiling fiasco, Mr Obama's popularity did not revive, despite the GOP's display of gross irresponsibility. Why was that?

A scheme to computerise the medical records of every patient in England has turned into a spectacularly expensive fiasco.

Kevin: You could say that, or you could call it a fiasco , debacle or( my personal favorite) a complete SNAFU. Take your pick.

Examples included the Belgian contamination fiasco in 1999, when the company took a week to accept responsibility for a wave of sickness.

The other airlines did not respond to CNN's enquiries but clearly a fiasco at JKF airport and then investigation is going to follow.

Incapable of moral clarity, he could never quite admit to himself that he was a charlatan and that his scheme was an impossible fiasco.

For the rest of us, the fiasco was as entertaining as one of Warner Brothers' better films.

From America's point of view, what was supposed to be a showpiece of Arab democracy gifted by Uncle Sam is becoming a fiasco .

Southwest, for one, seems to be considering adifferent approach after the public relations fiasco following theincident with Mr. Smith.

I hope they get quality up to par before they come here, I'd hate to see another Excel or Yugo fiasco.

The CDO fiasco was an egregious and relatively rare case of aninstrument getting way ahead of the ability to map it mathematically.

The penny stocks fiasco was the result of poor communications, misjudgment and the imperfect system, an independent panel report said.

"It's a complete fiasco, " he said of the new plan, "which is being once again paraded around as a great triumph. "

It was an illusion, which should have been dispelled early on by the fiasco of the 1956 Suez crisis.

Still, the worst thing was that I was becoming known for the fiasco and not the book.

It was a minor fiasco; she looked more like a punk rocker than someone who had just walked out of Jeff Dwire's beauty salon.

Sleeker technologies are now in the works, and experts are hoping that this year's fiasco will speed the pace of innovation.

Please do me a favor and offer some legitimate evidence of your 2012 fiasco. All i read is ancient prophecy and pseudoscience.

A multicultural personnel integration would be difficult; Daimler's Chrysler fiasco shows how tough these projects can be.

If that trust were to be eroded, rising interest costs would exacerbate the fiscal fiasco.

Given the magnitude of the fiasco and its possible ramifications, those who were responsible should have been punished.

That is at least one lesson to come out of the Gaza fiasco.

If the NHS fiasco is a delayed consequence of Cameron-as-chairman, there might be fewer unforced errors in future.

And I wonder if I should participate in the graduation fiasco.

Travers says the fiasco has undermined Murdoch in Britain and may do so in the United States as well.

These papers should have been called, "The End to the Global Warming Fiasco, " you know.

and, of course, the embarrassing sexual harassment fiasco that ensnared (now former) president Isiah Thomas.

You might recognize that this problem is similar to the C static initialization fiasco.

The fiasco began with a dressing-room row, in which a star player, Nicolas Anelka, yelled insults at Raymond Domenech, the coach.

At least the operator in the Dukes fiasco was finally fired (she's appealing her termination).

Policymakers, loath to preside over a Greek-style fiasco, have interpreted this thesis as a clarion call for fiscal tightening.

Instead, he believes the real aberration was the wretched 12 months he endured between the snap-election fiasco and his recent comeback.

There is general agreement that the Greek financial fiasco cannot be confined to that too-small-to-fail country.

The two grand mothers then paid to fill up their car before driving off; unaware the whole fiasco had been caught on security camera.

a fistfight had turned into a pistol - whipping , bullet - flying fiasco.

If you think that an outlandish prediction, consider the fiasco across the Atlantic.

On April 22nd the head of the exams regulator, who had resigned after the fiasco, told MPs that ministers had made him the fall guy.

Only then would the community try to turn the fiasco into an opportunity to educate.

The fiasco ended up adding $69 million to the cost of a warhead refurbishment programme.

It appears we are out of the mini - crisis with the Liverpool fiasco an increasingly dim and distant memory.

The company's refusal to acknowledge the aggressive competition led straight to the New Coke fiasco in 1985.

In this first systematic large-scale attacks, the human race was the deadly fiasco .

Pug thought that the Wotje fiasco must be weighing on him as a blight on that career.

Global observers have been quick to blame the US, arguing that it's all about the excesses of Wall Street and America's subprime fiasco.

The enemy's plot ended in a fiasco.

There was also the dry-wall fiasco, led paint in some toys, and poison pet food, to name a few.

Meanwhile, the British government is scrambling to avert a similar fiasco.

Barranco. This is turning into a public-relations fiasco, and that's bad news for everyone involved.

But the fiasco cannot fail to have reminded the authorities of the perils of ignoring their public.

For one, the fiasco at Fukushima Dai-ichi has revealed, again, the cosy ties between the nuclear industry and government.

In spite of the Herculian efforts made by the enemy, the plot ended in fiasco.

Mr Obama retorted by talking about Mr McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal, part of a savings-and-loan fiasco in the 1980s.

He cited the "presidential" election fiasco , for example, Frank Hsieh lashed out with his cutting, it would defeat.

The nearly decade-long tanker battle is typically viewed as a fiasco. But taxpayers actually benefited from it.

He also took responsibility for the 'fiasco' of a Geico-issued credit card.

Following the fiasco at Naboo, a new generation of battle droids was developed that featured enhanced intelligence and independence.

And now a painful confession: Last year your chairman closed the book on a very expensive business fiasco entirely of his own making.

This fiasco provides fuel for both sides in a long-running debate in Brazil about the foreign policy of the Lula government.

The Gonzales fiasco has dealt yet another serious blow to his reputation.

As with the Lehman Brothers fiasco, the failure to support a systemically-important institution unleashed a panic.

Another illustration of where ethical considerations come into play is the example of what could be called the "Switcher Fiasco. "

As somebody once said. There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco.

Since the 2005 fiasco the NDP has changed the rules to eliminate close judicial supervision of polls.

What the currency fiasco means for the regime's standing is still harder to gauge.

And I don't know if you realize this, but your U. N. Fiasco made us both look bad.

They tended to have more retirees and therefore more anger about the pensions fiasco.

Besides, as a senior UN official laments, the Iraq fiasco has "poisoned this well" .

Our allies have established a new structure that will ensure no repeat of the financial fiasco you are involved in.

Regardless of China's motive, some experts say the detentions are a public relations fiasco .

The participation of volunteers of Beijing and its functional personnel is also another factor leading to our fiasco .

Its preoccupation with internal problems helped spare it the worst of America's subprime-mortgage fiasco.

The Iraq fiasco has weakened the U. S. 's military and America's standing in the world.

Mr Ricks's acclaimed previous book, "Fiasco" , chronicled America's march towards perdition in Iraq.

Hitler's plan for the encirclement and capture of Moscow ended in a fiasco.

The pretext is to prevent wires getting crossed, as happened during the Northern Rock fiasco.

And it said it would appoint an independent body to review the fiasco in addition to conducting an internal review of its privacy practices.

Some say that Kennedy conceived of the race to the moon principally to recover from the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs.

But the history of Mars exploration is littered with failure -- more than half of the 30 missions to date have ended in fiasco.

fiasco : total failure The mass rally was a total fiasco.

Harry told them all about Dobby, the warning he'd given Harry and the fiasco of the violet pudding.

Two committees of the House of Representatives were holding hearings on the fiasco this week.

I wrongly presumed that adding new individuals to my sanctuary would not only be an invasion of privacy, but also a complete fiasco.

What will minimize the risks of a fiscal fiasco?

After the pants fiasco, I told Karel about my makeover project for this column.

The fiasco is embarrassing for Mr Fischer, chief executive since 2004, who once headed risk management at Deutsche Bank.

Both regulators and oil firms will learn useful lessons from the Deepwater Horizon fiasco, and safety will surely improve as a result.

What's wrong with this sad fiasco goes far beyond its visual deficits, but let's start there.

The Toyota fiasco contains a valuable lesson for ordinary investors.

As the mortgage fiasco showed, they are vulnerable to capture by those they police.

he hasn't had a policy fiasco like Kennedy's Bay of Pigs or Carter's Iran embarrassment.

When the recent bloody fiasco of Israel's raid on an aid flotilla again drew world attention to Gaza's plight, Mr Mubarak buckled.

Shortly after disclosing publicly that he'd taken his position in the spring, he abandoned it after the Alipay fiasco broke.

If the fiasco of structured finance has taught us one thing, it is that risk is not adequately captured by one simple measure.

No true fiasco, ever began as a quest for mere adequacy.

The party was a total fiasco because the wrong date was given on the invitations.

The currency fiasco will accelerate these trends.

Sheldon: Obviously another carnal fiasco with the Shiksi Goddess.

Practitioners took it on from there and the subprime fiasco resulted.

Their attempts to make public disorder ended in fiasco.

For example, John F. Kennedy faced the Bay of Pigs fiasco after just a few weeks on the job.

The new lot could have nipped the bonus fiasco in the bud.

You still haven't answered my questions to that 1914 fiasco.

Who do we have to thank for this fiasco ?

We have completely lost our way with this fiasco in Iraq.

Their marriage ended in a fiasco.

The coup was a fiasco from the start.

The fiasco raises important questions about how to regulate financial markets.

The wedding was a fiasco!

A fiasco in the Diet, or parliament, on June 2nd showed politics at worst.

The fiasco of the Olympic Torch Relay has focused attention on the condition of human rights in China.

Now that he has recovered his poise after the beef fiasco, his supporters argue that Mr Lee is just the man for the job.

Sandberg also will help Facebook avoid another privacy fiasco such as the storm caused by its Beacon ad-tracking technology.

For comparison, the Exxon Valdez fiasco in Alaska in 1989, America's most infamous oil spill, released just 260, 000 barrels.

A dismal failure; a fiasco.

To some, Citi's aeroplane fiasco is equally confidence-sapping.

We don't want a rerun of Monday's fiasco.

He's so right. Look at the ticketing fiasco.

So who is to blame for this financial fiasco ?

My feelings now are no different than when we began this fiasco, and that is that we should have stayed out.

The Financial Fiasco: Emotional, Irrational, Inevitable

ideological collapse - an important reason for the fiasco of the cpsu

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Fiasco complete and ridiculous failure;

after the divorce her situation has become a hectic fiasco