IF the consequences were not so serious, it would be tempting to mock the fiascos and flip-flops of America's intelligence services.

如果不是结果如此严肃的话，人们还以为这是一次对美国情报部门颠三倒四和接连失败的嘲弄。

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Second, he reckons that it bolstered his efforts to improve the shoddy quality of manufacturing, to protect the firm from future fiascos.

其次，他认为这件事促使他改善低劣的制造工艺，否则公司今后极有可能在这一点上一败涂地。

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We're certainly the experts on liability reduction, fiascos, and amazing PR”, tweeted Fake Lucas Van Praag, who impersonates the public-relations chief of Goldman Sachs on Twitter.

不可否认地，我们是削减负债、收拾残局以及魅力公关的专家” 伪卢卡斯•范•普拉格（Fake Lucas Van Praag）在Twitter上如此模仿高盛（Goldman Sachs）公关总监的口吻。

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Last year felt like a saturation bombing of accounting fiascos, from Enron to WorldCom to Adelphia and more.

FORBES: Watching The Books

Keep in mind that FINRA accepted some blame for the Madoff and Stanford Financial fiascos.

FORBES: FINRA CEO Ketchum's Speech And The Shortcomings Of Self Regulation

Those fiascos were the result not of a shortage of generating capacity, but rather of the failings of an antiquated grid.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR