Surely, a screw-up this gigantic can only be attributed to some extremely smart people.
''This was a screw-up, and we're angry and upset about it, '' AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein told The Associated Press.
His note blamed "European shortage of the Nintendo Wii Consoles, " so we'll be watching to see if this is part of a larger problem of Nintendo delivery in Europe, or simply a screw-up on the part of Play.com.
It has been downhill from there in what has become a classic case study of how to screw up a public relations challenge.
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This is really the tale of a onetime screw-up who made good.
If we know anything about Wall Street, it is that it will find a way to screw things up again and will want someone else to clean up the mess.
Lee's set has the dingy feel of a furnished room, and Robert Kaplowitz's sound design helps to screw up the tension to a pitch high enough to smash glass.
The Fed is less likely to screw up in a moment of panic if it has an objective yardstick to tell it how to react to changing economic conditions.
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The rise in health care costs, and especially in the share paid by the patient, is giving people a lot more incentive to screw up their courage to try to bargain down prices.
The majority of the Replicator's internal space is wide open, save for a build platform that can be adjusted up and down by turning a threaded screw and the gantry atop the space that houses the Stepstruder MK8, whose front is monopolized by a large pair of fans.
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Screw your eyes up a bit and look at the map and it starts to look very familiar.
"People have been trying to come up with a new screw for 100 years, to the point where you get sick of hearing about it, " LeVey says.
When you do something like this there is a chance, albeit a small one that you can screw up your device- if you're worried about this, don't do it.
Mr. SHURKIN: He had this enormous talent of picking geniuses, of exceptionably bright people to work for him, and it took him about a year and half to screw it up.
Here is an important thing to consider: when airlines cancel due to their own fault, such as a mechanical mishap or pilot scheduling screw up, they are liable for expenses their delayed passengers incur.
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Inside the mediocre lobby we staked out a position near the numbered boxes, innocuously pretending to screw up our change-of-address forms so that we had to start over again a dozen times.
Unlike its main rivals, closely-held Printpack and American National Can, "Bemis isn't afraid to say 'Let's screw up our earnings for a year' if the investment keeps them on top for the next decade, " Tiss says.
But for anyone who wants to do their fellow network users a favor and really screw with anyone using Firesheep, one Icelandic hacker has come up with a more aggressive solution: FireShepherd.
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W. Scripps, which Schonfeld accused of trying to screw up the Food Network, a cable channel he cofounded.
And it is so ingrained in the DNA of APPL that only a deliberate deviation from that idea can screw it up.
But then Sony acquired a relatively tiny entertainment company and it started to massively screw up.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, worried there could be a repeat of what he branded the "royal screw-up" of last month's primary election, urged New Yorkers on Sunday to report any problems at polling sites Tuesday by calling 311 or posting messages online.
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"Everyone realizes, 'Hey, don't screw this up, '" said Bucky Waters, a former basketball coach at Duke and West Virginia.
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Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business.
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"If you design society by taking a view through the eyes of the most vulnerable child then we completely screw up childhood for every child, " she told the meeting.
This documentary, directed by Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton, offers a new twist on the age-old pleasure of watching somebody truly and sumptuously screw up.
So when I screwed up, the consequences weren't as high as when kids on the South Side screw up. (Applause.) So I had more of a safety net.
"If you screw up, get it on the record as quickly as possible that there's a lesson learned, " he says.
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