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But Peyton List is charming as Holly, the cutie who serves as Greg's romantic interest, and a few scenes — a debacle at a Civil War re-enactment, for instance — have the spark of originality.

The legislation, spurred by a debacle at Kennedy International Airport on Feb. 14 in which JetBlue Airways stranded thousands of passengers on parked planes for up to 10 hours during an ice storm, was signed into law last August by Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

The Kings' blowout of last week -- an 8-2 victoverover the Oilers in Los Angeles -- morphed into something of a debacle at Rexall Place.

After contemplating the sheer genius of both the cinematography and the cast, I realized there was a debacle at hand -- no, I'm not talking about Rhoda attempting to find her medal.

The accounting scandal unfolding at Tesco is not your common or value-range business gaffe: it is crystallising into a debacle right at the top of Britain's corporate establishment.

It is starting to seem as though Sony Pictures could turn what appeared to be a debacle into at least a partial victory, not only by making back some money on a film that, according to critics, is sort of rotten but by seeing modest success with a relatively untested model for distributing films.

He was dogged at the end of his life by a Florida conviction for indecent exposure and public intoxication — a debacle that at least in part prompted his move from the U.S. to Paris — and decades after he died, his name was central to legal wranglings among his former bandmates over use of the group's music for commercial purposes.

What might have been a diplomatic triumph, or even the beginnings of a reputation for statesmanship, however, quickly turned into a political debacle at home, when leftist student groups and others quickly castigated Mr. Roh for supposedly caving in to Washington after campaigning on the theme of greater independence in foreign policy and defense matters.

A financial debacle at the parent of Swissair thrust the issue into public view.

Sally Hunt, the union's general secretary, said: "The situation around university fees is a complete debacle at the moment.

That attention to detail is what compelled Frank Supovitz, the National Football League's senior vice president for events, to hire Disney to help with this year's Super Bowl, following a seating debacle at the 2011 game.