The way the Pentagon and White House have responded to failures at Walter Reed with profuse apologies and by firing a general and a highly placed civilian is different from how the administration acted after the last major military scandal.

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Ten days later Ballou got violently ill, with uncontrollable chills, profuse sweats and headaches that felt like "a 9-inch spike through my head, " he says.

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Coupling reroutes lives, and delimits them, and when the stork turns up bearing a charming bundle the chances for complication grow alarmingly profuse.

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During a surgery to remove three molars, he awoke momentarily to see profuse bleeding.

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Groupon's spot during last year's Super Bowl, with its clumsy references to Tibet, provoked such a backlash on Twitter that the coupon site had to quickly abandon the commercial, with profuse apologies about how it had been misunderstood.

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