Bayer might have made a fatal mistake when it decided to release a higher-dose version of Baycol.

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But this is an error of taste, not a fatal mistake, and though it's undeniably irritating, it fails to diminish the play's impact, just as Mr. Albee's occasional lapses into preachiness ("We are not talking about the rights we pretend we give ourselves in this bewildered land of ours") are mere surface flaws.

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Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke said on Wednesday that Britain leaving the EU would be a "fatal mistake".

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It was, said Mr Harrington, a colossal and fatal mistake for Aamir, who was hoping to study law at Cardiff University.

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The prosecution called it a colossal, fatal mistake for Aamir.

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Speaking of Giuliani, his decision to forgo the early primaries looked like a poorly considered, even fatal mistake last week.

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Although Mr Clarke did not refer directly to the Conservative leader's referendum pledge, he warned that it was in the UK's "vital national interest that we avoid the fatal mistake that would be a No vote if a referendum is held in the next few years".

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Klapmeier thought a mistake like that should not have to have fatal consequences.

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