The deal is likely to be a boon for its participants and a disaster for carriers that couldn't get a piece of the action.
The last time a major web brand tried to make a social network out of its email program it was a disaster.
And its campaign in the Champions League was a disaster as City finished bottom of its group.
PC-like levels of reliability and user-friendliness, Nokia will have a disaster on its hands.
The 1998 takeover of Chrysler by Daimler-Benz was a disaster in its first six years.
In addition, the company chose to build its cooling facility at a lower elevation than its reactor, a decision that has played a significant role in the current disaster.
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Come January the stores were trying to ship back their over-stock and Star Wars was deemed a disaster and past its sell-by.
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Occasionally an individual country experiences a problem of its own, a political upheaval, a tsunami or similar natural disaster, a dumb decision, which affects only that country.
The wreckage created by Hurricane Katrina has left a public health disaster in its wake.
Texas Instruments was still feeling the pain after saying its profits would take a hit from the disaster.
Western Digital did not suffer a less severe disaster than its competitors who also have facilities in Bangkok.
The German manufacturer of Thalidomide continues to be vilified a half century after its birth defect disaster of the early 1960s.
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Russia has been busy helping Japan recover from its March 11 natural disaster, when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the main island of Japan.
Mushrooms, in fact, are merely the fruit of a vast subterranean fungal body, the mycelium, which waits in morbid repose for a natural disaster to prompt its libido.
The Forest Service says Tombstone holds permits for just five springs, and it argues the city is trying to exploit a natural disaster to expand its water system.
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It also made the group refocus its own mission: Instead of being a disaster relief organization that uses veterans, Team Rubicon is now a veterans support organization that uses disasters as opportunities for continued service.
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"V for Vendetta" wasn't meant to be a disaster movie, of course, and there's no reason to think it will be a disaster, even though its original opening date of November 5th -- Guy Fawkes Day -- had to be pushed forward after real-life terrorists attacked London last July.
It's probably not a disaster, because most of its features can be turned off, but first-time users could be confused.
The way Netflix launched its 2-division campaign in 2011 was a disaster.
With no respite on the cards from a euro sovereign debt disaster and its ramifications, many investors and traders simply do not want to play.
Last year, only eight of the 76 films in the festival were purchased, including director Todd Berger's "It's A Disaster, " which had its world premiere at the festival and was immediately acquired by Oscilloscope Pictures.
It will prevent a country going into default as a result of a natural disaster and will reinforce its standing in the eyes of lenders and rating agencies (important if it has to borrow to cope with the disaster).
It took a natural disaster to awaken government to its true purpose: providing for citizens what no one else can provide.
With virtually no conventional fossil fuels of its own and a nuclear industry crippled by the Fukushima disaster, Japan has been keen to develop new sources of energy, however speculative they may appear.
Italy's Benetton eventually admitted a link following publication of photographs of its labels in the wreckage and testimony of survivors, though it maintains its subcontractor stopped using the factory a month before the disaster because of poor standards.
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After its first four attempts at malls, which were a disaster, Mr Allen now thinks Seiyu has learnt the tricks of the trade, offering super-cheap leases to the crowd-pulling stores so that money-earning small retailers will want to open up too.
Whether Africa's demography brings a dividend or disaster is largely up to its governments.
Verizon said it built its wireless network to be redundant in case of a natural disaster.
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