There are times when the little stories of the mishaps of life pass over into stories about the monstrous stupidity of certain fellow members of our species.
No: if thirty years of marriage and bringing up a child had taught me anything, it was that through everything, through all the Christmases and birthdays, through all the mishaps and misunderstandings, almost nothing had been shared.
In a study of a large university hospital, my colleagues and I found that more than a fifth of the medical mishaps reported in the study could have been prevented if someone had been willing to risk having a difficult conversation.
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The Air Force's Major Jonathan Songer points out that many of the Predator mishaps occured early in the program, when the unmanned drones were still prototypes.
Dora, who sent Elgar the Billy Malpass newspaper cutting, said the composer loved the crowds, the gasps from the terraces at mishaps and the roar that greeted a goal.
Populist ire over the BP spill came from both sides of the aisle, and any further mishaps by the industry are likely to elicit the same response.
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Under Tony Blair, Mr Brown's predecessor, the government got a reputation for bungling, with notable mishaps at the Home Office.
And how do you keep the sort of mishaps that are inevitable when dealing with any form of transportation in perspective?
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One is to limit the scope for mishaps to escalate into crises.
One slight hurdle for this collecting sport: the frequency of mishaps.
The proven and repeated failures of the IMF are perceived in these countries not as the result of technical mishaps but as a wicked plan to deliberately wreak havoc on their part of the world.
Company officials say that the campaign featuring Mr. Toyoda as a cockpit jockey helps the company turn the page on its recent mishaps and provides a sportier image for the brand.
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Although in-hospital medication errors receive most of the attention, neighborhood-drug-store mishaps, similar to the one in Colorado, also occur frequently.
Remember the Gulf Oil Spill and other mishaps where regulators were left utterly dependent on the regulated to fix matters?
In the eyes of Stanford's team leader, Sebastian Thrun, all of those robotic mishaps prove that the world is still years away from driverless autos.
Yun and Lee rattle off what they consider medicine's mishaps in the last three decades of treating clogged arteries.
Russia has experienced a number of launch mishaps in the past 13 months.
Besides, Cerberus is a foreign firm, it is an election year and, with all their recent economic mishaps, the Japanese are nursing a bruised pride.
Liao says that's a manufacturing defect, and that MEDL is testing LCD panels from a variety of manufacturers to avoid such mishaps in the final product.
He blames bad marketing for many of F1's mishaps in the US. He's confident social media and the internet will result in more Americans appreciating European-style racing.
After a battery fire and several other mishaps over the past few days, two separate flights reported a cracked cockpit window and an oil leak on Friday.
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Therefore, reforms should center on ensuring that market risks become more readily identifiable, and that the costs of future mishaps are more fairly shared among borrowers, investors and governments.
Gerry Kelly's collision with a getaway car full of robbery suspects after leaving a counting centre is just the latest in a series of mishaps, some more serious than others, which bedevilled the closing stages of the assembly election campaign.
Credit Suisse has had its share of mishaps during the crisis but it was quick to scale down its balance-sheet, has plotted a credible strategy for its investment bank and pulled well ahead of UBS, its main rival in wealth management.
To purportedly keep children from being lured into eating food that causes obesity and other physiological mishaps, the ban, effective December 2011, prohibits restaurants from offering a free toy or prize with meals that exceed 600 calories, 650 mgs of sodium, and fat levels exceeding 35% of total calories.
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If the weather, mechanical troubles or other mishaps put an aircraft out of commission, the firm often has roughly a dozen "hot" planes in different locales that are ready to take up the mantle.
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"The causes of last year's mishaps must be remedied so they do not occur in the future, " Marilyn Heiman, director of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Arctic program, said in an e-mail.
The Lexington Institute's Loren Thompson says those mishaps usually result from a simple break in the line-of-sight connection between a plane and the satellite that controls it--often when one of the aircraft's own wings maneuvers into the path of the signal.
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