In sum, Google made a big mistake in allowing the Google-Mozilla agreement to expire and putting the business relationship out for competitive bidding, because it now begs for public and antitrust scrutiny.

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It's come to this, Mr. Goodell says as we sit in his midtown Manhattan office, because the owners made the mistake of signing a bad collective-bargaining agreement in 2006.

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The Mets, at the peak of their popularity in the mid-1980s, made the mistake of locking into a long-term cable agreement that cut them off from the escalating rights fees of the 1990s.

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Clinton called the policies of free trade such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), promoted by her own husband, a "mistake".

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And make no mistake about it, that is precisely what the effect of this agreement would be.

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Google made a big strategic and tactical mistake in allowing the Google-Mozilla revenue-sharing search default agreement to expire in November, ending a formal commercial relationship that had lasted at least six years.

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Mistake number four was not creating any type of contract that outlined our agreement.

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