Sentences with phrase «of screwup»

And then there was an almost farcical round robin of screwups that included the hiring of Leo Apotheker as CEO in September, 2010 only to fire him a year later, largely due to the Autonomy deal which degenerated into charges and countercharges of fraud between HP and former Autonomy execs.

In a funk after a series of screwups, Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony has rediscovered his grin and his game

The city BOE, which has a long history of screwups, mysteriously removed 126,000 Democrats from the rolls ahead of the election.

Not exact matches

«You've got three different ways that Equifax is making money, millions of dollars, off its own screwup,» the Senator said at the hearing.

Both companies admitted the screwup, and much of the hoax content was gone by late in the afternoon.

A simple idea with a NSFW name, the concept is to gather members of your entrepreneurial community together regularly to share your biggest screwups and the wisdom (painfully) gained from them.

While Facebook was a publicly - traded company, with a fiduciary duty to its shareholders in 2014 to not have massive screwups and probably a lot more responsibility to keep this kind of information in check, it's hardly alone in that respect.

But with its history of botched federal contracts, including a $ 60 million screwup for the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, the overseer of retirement accounts for 4.6 million current and former federal employees, AMS has also supplied some headaches.

If you are ignorant of, or make a stupid judgment about the precarious situation you and 150 to 300 of your closest friends are in, then you my friend need to spend a few weeks in a jail to ponder your screwup.

None of htese morons is qualified for the job, so sometimes looking at how they practice their faith is a good indicator of trying to do good and be humble rather than an elected screwup know - it - all.

Will, the ad populum fallacy is one of your latest screwups.

Golf Channel's Frank Nobilo contrasted the call with some of the ignominious and high - profile governing body screwups this year.

Across the field Cal fans, the beneficiaries of the band's alleged screwup, «flipped us off,» Anderson says.

Andrew Cuomo's new HOV / bus lane on the Verrazano - Narrows bridge — which was intended to be a key part of the governor's plan to ease commutes ahead of planned maintenance work on Amtrak lines but which turned into a traffic «disaster» on the day of rollout — was partially complicated by a contractor screwup on signs, the MTA admitted.

Then, when he was 15, came what he calls his «trifecta» — a trio of cataclysmic screwups that brought him to the brink of a failed life.

The characters are perfectly evolved screwups and the premise (every legit cop is quarantined at a police convention, leaving our heroes in charge of Miami) has potential.

When lifelong screwups (and brothers) Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron) ruin yet another family gathering with their «riled up» antics, their mom and dad (Stephanie Faracy and Stephen Root) request that the duo find a pair of «nice girls» to invite to their sister's (Sugar Lyn Beard) wedding.

And though Benedict Cumberbatch seems to be everywhere these days, he was still a relative unknown from the BBC series «Sherlock» when he sent in his taped audition to play the screwup son of Mattie Fae, Violet's sister.

McQuivey might respond that, even in the midst of that high - profile screwup by the publishers, the Big 6 had plenty of people working on digital books, preparing a way forward for the industry that aligned better with customer's evolving reading patterns.

On Saturday, Howey criticised Amazon for its «biggest screwup in this affair thus far» — the company's rollout of the KENPC, the standardised page the company is using to calculate authors» compensation:

That said, some of my favorite authors frequently have homophone screwups.

However, schedule changes, missed connections, and other general screwups can be more difficult to handle when you book with a third party because they are in charge of your ticket.

Here's my recent screwup, reflexively tweeting after seeing a flooded runway in the flow of Hurricane Harvey news.

While Facebook was a publicly - traded company, with a fiduciary duty to its shareholders in 2014 to not have massive screwups and probably a lot more responsibility to keep this kind of information in check, it's hardly alone in that respect.

Both companies admitted the screwup, and much of the hoax content was gone by late in the afternoon.

Thanks to two full time jobs, multiple part time jobs, an abundance of learning opportunities (aka «screwups»), and a general need for human interaction, this pantry renovation took us about two and half months to complete.