Recently the sporting world brought us two examples of authority figures making the wrong call.
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Experts agree that Edu was not offside, and yet his goal was simply wiped away with the wrong call.
FORBES: Like Umps and Refs, Bosses Sometimes Make the Wrong Call
By micro-managing the structure of the wireless industry, the commission tasked with overseeing the communications industry risks making the wrong call.
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And when an umpire clearly makes the wrong call, and it costs us, what do you think: I'm gonna sit on my hands?
Over the years, Ballmer has made a buffoon of himself while turning out wrong call after wrong call on products, markets, and people.
Yes, even bosses and authority figures sometimes make the wrong call.
FORBES: Like Umps and Refs, Bosses Sometimes Make the Wrong Call
But making the wrong call is different from making the wrong marks on a trading book, which is what the unnamed trader is accused of doing.
Just four months ago, Kelleher and Mack had blamed Morgan Stanley's fourth-quarter loss on the actions of a single mortgage trading desk, which made the wrong call.
Even more recently, World Cup soccer brought us another example of the wrong call when referee Koman Coulibaly disallowed what should have been the game-winning goal by the United States in their match against Slovenia.
FORBES: Like Umps and Refs, Bosses Sometimes Make the Wrong Call
It looked like Schalke had heaped further misery on Inter when Howedes fired in at the back post but he was adjudged to be offside with replays suggesting the referee's assistant had made the wrong call.
Chinese policy makers may make the wrong call in the type or speed of stimulus efforts, they say, while rising concerns over Europe's debt troubles could hurt all foreign investments as investors move to safe havens.
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It is plainly wrong to call certain subjects 'facilitating' whilst, implicitly, denigrating others.
But Apcims, the representative body of the stockbroking industry, said the archbishops were wrong to call for an outright, long-term ban on short-selling.
But she is such a talented artist and her black-and-white drawings are so captivating, it seems wrong to call her memoir a comic book.
One gay blogger tweeted me and said I had been wrong to call for Don Imus' firing because he was a comedian like Morgan, and that I employed a double standard.
Replays indicated that the line judge may have got the foot fault call wrong.
Whilst an attack on a specific religion is wrong, no call to violence is justified.
"For me as a caregiver, it gives me so much support and puts me at ease that if things were to go wrong I would call and they would come at any time, " Ms. Roland says.
The Divisional Court ruled that our judgement call was wrong and I accept that.
"There were a lot of top-notch players around then, so it was probably the wrong time for a call-up, " former Saints boss Dave Jones told BBC Sport.
American Eagle is another call analysts got wrong, according to Sozzi.
If things go really wrong, you may need to call in the pros.
Red Hat and Novell, its main rival, still make money by giving away Linux and charging for support: customers sign up for a subscription that gives them the right to all the updates and someone to call if something goes wrong.
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She made one error, cutting off the call briefly by hitting a wrong button, but this might have been because it was a test in which I was at one point using a phone also listed for my wife as a contact.
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After a visual inspection showed nothing wrong, mission managers told the astronauts to call it a day.
Banamex, a big bank, has called your correspondent every day for two years because its call centre is unable to correct wrong numbers.
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