Where lock-in is a factor, it is wrong to suppose that consumers and producers will blunder on as if it were not.
"The evidence we were shown was extremely powerful and it leads us to conclude that this was a very serious blunder on the part of the United States, " said our correspondent.
Some see the leak about the ECB withdrawing funding from those banks as a giant blunder on a day when the president of the ECB, Mario Draghi, said in support of Greece only that the ECB had a "strong preference" for It staying in the euro.
The so-called London Whale blunder weighed on shares heavily in the spring and summer, but with the year winding down the stock was just a few bucks shy of its 2012 highs.
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Turner sideline reporter Craig Sager was broadcasting a 1978 Kansas City Royals spring-training game for a local station, he said, when the 5-foot-5 shortstop Freddie Patek hit "the you-know-what" out of the ball, at least according to Sager in the booth. (Except "you-know-what" was you know what.) Not a single mention of Sager's blunder exists on the Internet today.
Mr Cameron earlier played down the flag blunder, which happened on the first day of sporting action, and delayed the women's football match between North Korea and Colombia at Glasgow's Hampden Park by about an hour.
Earlier Wayne Rooney capitalised on a shocking blunder to bring United level after Porto produced an early warning of their intentions.
EU's most recent rejection of Turkey's candidature, in 1997, when the current 12 other applicants were accepted, was a serious blunder readily blamed in retrospect on the Greeks.
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Lord Hoffmann's blunder has cast a harsh light on Britain's highest court, and raised serious doubts about whether the Law Lords will be ready to deal with the wave of controversial cases expected after the Human Rights Act comes into force, probably next year.
On the surface, the blunder was failing to square the retail deal with a coalition ally, the Trinamul Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, a notoriously unreliable ally.
Not only is Microsoft losing out on cash thanks to this blunder, but it also puts PC owners at risk from unscrupulous PCC sellers who might try to palm off an illegal copy of Windows onto users.
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But it does raise the question of whether Mr Obama's decision to spend so much of his political capital on health care was a monumental strategic blunder.
The biggest blunder most presenters make is not humiliating themselves or freezing up on stage.
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The trader himself, Nick Leeson, was a soft-hearted sap who started on the road to perdition to cover up a blunder by a junior colleague, and appeared to think he was dealing in cappuccino options.
As Neflix management scrambled to recover from the blunder, other services, like Amazon and Hulu, gained strength, putting even more pressure on Netflix.
The company recently made headlines when shoppers on one of its Christmas trips to France were taken to Belgium after a sat-nav blunder diverted their coach off course.
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