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

Meanwhile, some Japanese and Chinese media have portrayed the diplomatic debacle as the result of a misunderstanding by Tokyo officials.

Within days, the company realized it had a major public relations debacle on its hands and had to respond.

His theories are summed up in testimony he gave to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in 2002, after the Enron debacle.

Already it's clear that this debacle was more than an act of God.

The dude had his manhood questioned after last June's debacle, and like the rest of his teammates, he will no longer be pushed around.

As is often the case in the murky world of foreign-labor recruiting, responsibility for this debacle is hard to pin down.

In the aftermath of the Lehman debacle, the decision appears to be that the only alternative to disorderly bankruptcy is none at all.

Indeed, the consensus among regulators and analysts after the LTCM debacle was that such off-balance sheet activities should be regulated.

The chief executive does not have fond memories of that encounter, which he describes as a "debacle" .

The mothballing of the Satsop nuclear project was such a debacle, the region's electric ratepayers are still paying for it.

The economic debacle of the early 1930s is usually explained as a domestic disaster.

America's adventure, immensely costly in terms of blood and treasure, turned into a debacle.

But Raikkonen, 29, also admitted his own role. "I certainly wasn't keen on doing another run, " he said of the Q1 debacle.

Other regimes will learn lessons from the Iran debacle and are likely to be better prepared for the next twitterised revolution.

And yet there is much that America can still try to do to mitigate the dimensions of the debacle.

They are determined to avoid a similar debacle. So on every procedural question, they have done the reverse of what he did.

Looming in the backdrop is a European debt debacle that seems to get more convoluted by the week.

The debacle, more than any other single problem Starbucks faced, made Schultz decide to step back into the role of active CEO.

Indeed , the tax cut debacle is one of the reasons that we may never see another Fed chairman with quite the same range of influence .

The governing class is trying to deflect blame for the debacle.

The bankruptcy of the model was then revealed by the collapse of twin stock market and real-estate bubbles and a subsequent banking debacle.

The debacle, and the reaction to it, says as much about French neuroses as it does about football.

Expect the next leg down will be a real debacle so we feel compelled to reiterate the downside risk.

In Newsweek Niall Ferguson, a British historian, declared that the president had presided over "a foreign-policy debacle" .

By common consent China is the chief beneficiary of the financial debacle and a serious challenger to US hegemony.

Tiger Woods, too, could well emerge with added lustre from his own debacle.

Federal prosecutors are now investigating whether any commanders knew of the SOS debacle, but failed to stop it.

The fingerprints of simplifying and exaggerating journalists are all over the Iraq debacle.

They lost 10 to 0 in the championship game, so the coach figured the right thing to do was to resign after such a debacle.

Mr Martin did not force those implicated in the expenses debacle to submit dodgy claims.

Ever since that debacle, the regime has declared it the justified suppression of a counterrevolutionary riot by a bunch of hooligans .

But the Dubai debacle suggests that the best of both worlds can easily turn into the worst of both worlds.

These days the western world is reeling from another massive financial crisis, that eclipses the S&L debacle in terms of wealth destruction.

Bush knew what he was doing by banning photographs and clips of flag draped coffins during most of his Iraq debacle.

This debacle is an example of a structural failing in security that echoes across the entire internet.

This debacle suggests the Bank of England's regime was too strict in a crisis.

Agreeing on a new constitution would also help shift the focus of political debate and get around the election debacle.

In recent months, what started as a debacle has turned into a nightmare.

And it terminates future lobbying, which was one of the primary contributors to this great debacle.

By early July, Peter Wuffli, UBS's chief executive, had been ousted in part over concerns about his handling of the DRCM debacle.

It might also avoid the kind of public relations debacle Detroit's fat cats endured last week.

The company really needs some good news after the 40nm debacle(s) of late, and today's killing doesn't bring anyone nearer to that point.

Bernabo Bocca, chairman of the Italian hoteliers' association, described the results as a debacle.

Then the full scale of the debacle emerges and another face-saving fiction emerges: no one could possibly have seen this coming.

As the debacle in the sub-prime mortgage sector illustrates, the resulting credit withdrawal could be quite dramatic.

His first performance was a debacle: the audience booed him off the stage .

Citigroup has been hammered by the fallout from the subprime-mortgage debacle and its repercussions in financial markets.

Yet so far, the UK government's response to the financial debacle has been restricted to regulatory review.

Even without jokes about the rating agencies' performance during the great US structured debt debacle, the answer should plainly be "no" .

The big debate about Facebook's value and their Beacon debacle is a reflection of this fundamental problem.

Over the past year, however, the debacle in Iraq and problems at home have turned both leaders from soaring hawks into the lamest of ducks.

Well, she'd have to bear it meekly, much as she disliked it, if she expected to snatch victory from this debacle .

THEY are two of the biggest names in technology and each is grappling with a huge and highly embarrassing debacle.

For those championing an increase in the number of women on British bank boards, this latest debacle is manna from heaven.

The April 2001 "spy plane" debacle is an example of such a misunderstanding.

For instance, a 16-month recession after the dot-com debacle was followed by seven years of expansion.

The debacle is due to the unexpected severity of the financial crisis and shocking policy errors.

During the East Asian financial crash of the late 1990s, many in the region blamed China as a proximate cause of the debacle.

Pakistanis may reasonably fear that the latest debacle on their territory will encourage yet warmer ties between America and India.

The Greece debacle is likely to hasten and worsen increased oversight of the derivatives market.

Club owner Roman Abramovich, along with his key director Eugene Tenenbaum, will demand answers as to how the debacle happened.

And with hotel rates in the emirate under pressure because of the debt restructuring debacle, tour packages look even more attractive.

Old hands need to look with new eyes, for this week's debacle constitutes the biggest threat yet to the post-war trading system.

Eurosceptics, who opposed the formation of the single currency, predicted this kind of debacle.

The ongoing financial debacle could retard further expansion of EU membership in two ways.

Please end this sorry debacle and leave before the unholy mess you've created on this side of the Atlantic gets any worse.

China's slight openness with Taiwan could merely be pre-Olympic posturing to save face after its Tibetan debacle.

But, in the wake of the phone-hacking debacle, his immediate challenge is to make the public respect them.

As for risks, JPMorgan has already admitted that litigation costs arising from the Bear's debacle could be substantial.

They have to deal with absorbing the losses from the debacle of the past few years and the fact the economy remains weak.

Britain's current airport debacle is the predictable and predicted outcome of ill-conceived airport privatisation.

Would anyone care to explain how G&H are to blame for today's debacle! ! ? We were playing Luton, yes, Luton.

After his latest debacle, we will let him stew in his own juice and suffer the consequences.

In the months that followed the DP World debacle, foreign investors got over their initial shock and poured into the US market.

The lesson of the Irish debacle, then, is very nearly the opposite of what Mr. Ryan would have us believe.

Mr Obama blamed himself for the debacle during a television interview last night, saying: "I screwed up. "

While it can only be glimpsed, an end to the debacle in Iraq does not mean an end to America's responsibilities in the world.

To me, this whole clown debacle makes an important point: we adults just don't understand kids.

The Suez debacle in 1956 was a sudden eye-opener to the decline of British power in the eastern Mediterranean.

Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times Book Review, is well qualified to explain this extraordinary debacle.

If Microsoft's Red Ring of Death debacle has taught us anything, it's that technology is far more ephemeral now than it's ever been.

NATO spokesmen scrambled to minimize the flap over the latest debacle.

But China has been remarkably consistent in its view throughout the debacle, and it sees little reason to celebrate.

Russia's experiment with laissez-faire had proved to be a debacle.

Nor has Unilever forgotten its debacle with the takeover of SlimFast Foods, a maker of slimming drinks.

After the currency reforms, angry citizens threw anonymous notes on the ground criticising the debacle.

But as harrowing as the Fukushima debacle has been, it hasn't dimmed the hopes of nuclear technologists, suppliers and manufacturers.

The organizers of the Commonwealth Games debacle skimmed funds.

after the harken debacle , the friends of bush ' s dad got him a seat .

after the harken debacle , the friends of bush ' s dad got him a seat .

And this is now being reinforced by the regulatory response to the financial debacle.

The EURUSD move retraced after European open as the night's debacle reaches the European markets, which open lower.

Falling house prices and the "subprime" debacle have now derailed this debt-accumulation machine.

Among other things, the debacle in South Korea has focused renewed attention on oocyte donation.

After the debacle of 1956 the French concluded that, to avoid further humiliation, they had to secure strategic autonomy.

This last debacle largely explains the deficits experienced and forecast.

Fortunately, many of the lessons of this debacle have already been learned.

I started reading and got intrigued by the heroic stories within this debacle .

Any real change in the near term must come from China, which increasingly has the most to lose from a dollar debacle.

Yet the company's halo has slipped because of the debacle at its finance arm.

Another initiative was launched this autumn after the summer's debt ceiling debacle, namely a bipartisan "Supercommittee" .

Since the debacle of 2000 in Florida federal money to the tune of several billion dollars has been lavished on replacing them.

After the Iraq debacle, all claims must be examined closely.

Congress is about to tackle health care, for the first time since the debacle of 1993-94.

Whether Walmart can bounce back quickly from the Chongqing debacle is uncertain.

Mr Obama's China visit last November was viewed as a debacle because Beijing limited his access to the Chinese public.

In this budget debacle, Mr. Schwarzenegger found himself back where his remarkable political journey began in 2003.

But the unfolding economic debacle in the developed world is wounding China, not killing it.

The insulation scheme was rushed in the implementation and flaws were not addressed. The result: a debacle.

The Sina poll also shows 62% of users saying the GOME debacle has influenced their opinion of entrepreneurs.

Experts found no shortage of culprits to blame for the latest debacle.

The central banks bear equal responsibility in the current debacle.

Now the debacle at Salomon had exposed him utterly, putting the entirety at stake.

The plan was passed, but not without getting around some of the principles outlined after the 2008 debacle.

Yet the Spider-Man debacle is ultimately an executive failure on the part of the U2 pair.

Was Britain's involvement in Iraq an absolute debacle, and if so, who was responsible?

Kerry maintains that Bush doesn't try very hard to win US allies over, and after the WMD debacle few believe him anyway.

s (NSWA) phone-hacking debacle, in which the boards missed major risks they should have caught.

The debacle at Waterloo signaled the end of Napoleon's power.

After all, sitting and waiting is how we made money from the subprime debacle.

As the credit debacle rumbles on, the echoes of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 grow louder.

The Iraq debacle has produced a fierce backlash against pro-war hawks, of which AIPAC was certainly one.

But the FutureGen debacle has shown the all too messy reality of innovation.

He is becoming one of the most important non-European voices in the sovereign-debt debacle.

The Argentine debacle has important lessons to teach.

Can a new type of urban gated community reverse China's ecological debacle?

Before the NHS debacle, in fact, the coalition's foreign policy looked shakier than its domestic reforms.

Apart from the debacle of Iraq, the one vast strategic error Mr Bush has made has been his sin of omission in Palestine.

And don't use this debacle to start a general discussion about the difficulties in your relationship.

What can we do today to avoid repeating the French debacle?

For hedge funds themselves the debacle of 2008 will mean clients start getting far tougher.

Still, we have stained ourselves, again after the 2008 debacle when our excesses in the financial system almost did the world in.

Instead of a high-minded victory, they have witnessed a debacle.

Perhaps that is one reason for the debacle that has emerged at Union Pacific, the new poster child for merger problems.

What would the world be like if greedy American bankers didn't start this economic debacle that affected the world.

The debacle caused a financial meltdown.

Of course, the debt-ceiling debacle is partly to blame.

But the lessons from the debacle still linger along with the real-world impact of social media.

The debacle also highlights the isolation within Congress of reformers such as Mr Mukherjee and the prime minister, Manmohan Singh.

The recent Vioxx debacle bears this out.

Does a future Democratic president want to risk a similar debacle?

It's also what we ourselves did after the savings and loan debacle of the Reagan years.

Some wonder how S&P can rank America below France, which is knee-deep in the euro-debacle.

The upshot: Bank investors expecting a big rebound in earnings growth after the debacle of 2007 will likely be disappointed.

This has led to a furious row over who is to blame for this costly and embarrassing debacle.

Many men were shot or captured in the debacle.

In the wake of the Dubai debacle, lenders to the Gulf may favour those states that can fall back on "real assets" , such as gas and oil.

This is understandable, given the scale of the debacle.

But the BP debacle shows the need to plan carefully.

You mean this is another third-generation iPod shuffle debacle?

Stop making excuses for the person responsible for this debacle. Jenny, why are you making excuses for the person responsible?

Just look at how we had handled our savings and loan debacle.

Some specific regions had suffered downturns: prices in Texas, for example, fell during the Savings and Loans debacle of the late 1980s.

The data from this debacle will inform the models of the future.

Similar rescues followed the Korean War, in 1953, the Bay of Pigs debacle, in 1961, and the Vietnam War, in 1975.

The Doha debacle has exposed that theory for what it is .

An American official famously quipped after the 2007-08 debacle that you should "never let a serious crisis go to waste" .

Speaking of profits, I like Mrs. Jordan's idea of turning our Montayne debacle into a commercial advantage.

Even more alarming is the fact that experts are still uncertain about the causes of the economic debacle in Japan.

So who is to blame for the debacle and what lessons should the UK learn?

The Profit & Loss curve best summarize the debacle that led to such a loss

"That is, " he says, "if the Malema debacle doesn't scare people away. "

Environment risk analysis of dam debacle in phosphorite tailing pond in rainstorm

The debacle of the Millennium Dome finished off Cool Britannia;

The ruling party has been battered at the polls. It now risks drawing the wrong lessons from the debacle

Chalk up another victim of the subprime lending debacle

Inside Toyota, Executives Trade Blame Over Debacle

Asthe debacle over the fiscal compact shows,