Sentences with word «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.

Thats a bigtime screwup from the coaching.

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:

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.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, a frustrated Sookie gives serious consideration to a life without vampires; Hoyt ignores his mother's pleas to stick with Summer; Lafayette's bond with Jesus grows stronger; Tommy's latest screwup gets on Sam's last nerve; and Jason thinks about yet another new career.

Frightening screwups happen at even the most well - respected medical centers, a point driven home last November when, at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, actor Dennis Quaid's 2 - week - old twins, Zoe Grace and Thomas Boone, received near - fatal, thousandfold overdoses of the blood thinner Heparin.

Miles Teller co-stars as an unemployable junkie screwup who gets his girlfriend pregnant and sees this crew as his last shot at redemption.

So this was a major screwup by EB.

As you said, I also think homophone screwups and the like are less impactful than things like nonsensical character actions.

Dear Sen. O'Connor - Ives: The recent screwup at the Equifax credit bureau may not be as newsworthy as... Read more →

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

It might be for a serious screwup; Winkler has a sharp eye for holes in a story.

At Com - Corp Industries, a Cleveland metal stamper, president John Strazzanti has added «screwup boxes.»

It's time for the judicial system to hold these companies to a higher standard — and make them pay for these security screwups... lest we get fooled again.

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.

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.

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

What I will say is that he didn't let those few screwups affect his confidence very much, as far as I could tell, and he held his own against both guys quite a bit.

They managed the feat for the third time in their history thanks to an umpire screwup.

«One more screwup, and I've got nothing else to look for in life,» Moss says.

For the Chiefs to decide a player as talented as Peters had to go and for the rest of the league to look at him and say «he isn't worth even a 2nd round draft pick and no draft pick this year without something else coming with him» means Peters must be an epic screwup.

Same helper, same screwup.

I kept putting them on backwards and feeling like a complete screwup.

In older people, the theory goes, mitochondria have collected so many genetic screwups that their energy production is stunted, which could be what causes hairs to go gray, skin to sag, and muscles, bones, and brain tissue to shrink.

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.

One study of settled malpractice claims found that 59 % of outpatient claims were for a diagnostic screwup.

Buscemi is Tommy Basilio, a 31 - year - old screwup who has been fired from his job as a car mechanic for stealing money.

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.

That the writer - director has found a way to preserve his acerbic wit while also deepening his humane appreciation for life's screwups adds evidence to the case that he's one of the most consistent (and consistently rewarding) American filmmakers working today.

Now Ewan McGregor has boarded the series as well, in the role of Cooper and Wiest's screwup middle child.

Three overlapping character - coded chapters follow a wayward character's pratfalls and screwups through the course of their fateful intersections.

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.

Movies about giant monsters descending upon cities are a common sight, as are movies about chronic screwups trying to get their lives back on track.

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.

The list prices are an obvious screwup on Amazon's system (misplaced decimal?

You suggest that, if there was the additional screwup in EOS2003 mentioned above, that it is impossible to be certain which is the case.

As far as I can tell, the case could not be dismissed (it is not in question that he did the act, that it was not self defense, and there are no apparent procedural screwups that would preclude inculpatory evidence from being introduced), but there could be a diminished capacity defense.

Fortunately, not all name screwups are fatal, as we see in Juddav Designs Inc. v. Cosgriffe, 2012 ONSC 6493.

It isn't commonly granted, but jury nullification — or, more frequently, jury screwups or misunderstandings severe enough to justify it — are not very common either.

The refs may have screwed up in this case, but I don't think a rule can or should be written that protects against that level of screwup.

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.