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

While economic figures can always be put down to greater forces beyond the chancellor's control, these kind of fiascos are home-grown.

BBC: Jobless put Schroeder on the line

Prompted by the ongoing fiascos, energy department officials announced that the contract to manage the lab will be put to an open competition next year.

ECONOMIST: Why can't researchers at Los Alamos keep a secret?

Like has often been the case with Citigroup, fiascos at the bank have a way of impacting the broader banking system, even the entire economy.

FORBES: Meet The Man Who Is Really Running Citigroup

In the aftermath of the Reggie Bush scandal and the subsequent potential of stripping him of his Heisman Award, much debate has centered on whether college athletes should be paid for their services to perhaps avoid such fiascos.

FORBES: The Right Way to Compensate College Athletes

This is astonishing, given that your department referred the leaks for an inquiry in the first place, and were well aware from the relevant newspaper coverage that the Shadow Home Affairs team had commented on the fiascos at your department revealed through the leaks.

BBC: In full: Dominic Grieve's letter

There have been fiascos.

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