John Pavlik, head of PR at the Academy, said that although the organisation had "lit a fire" under the notoriously inefficient US Postal Service - which was responsible for a similar sort of bungle in 1982 - only two of the missing bags had been recovered.
Council housing benefit departments across the country reacted with dismay after the DWP bungle was revealed.
Jeremy Paxman's probing interview with Silvio Berlusconi may have garnered plenty of headlines, but Newsnight had a narrow escape after a bungle in the emailed transcript of the exchanges sent under embargo to journalists.
That year saw Hillary Clinton testifying before a grand jury over Whitewater, a complicated property scandal which, together with the Hillarycare bungle, looked to have ended her political career before it ever really began.
But he is the guiding spirit of the International Crisis Group, a small outfit dedicated to the preventive efforts that governments and multilateral agencies tend to bungle.
But the extraordinary effect of a single bureaucratic bungle has been to knock 0.6 percentage points off Japan's growth.
Mr Cossiga considers all Italy's conservatives suffer by association with the "B factor .In this section Solidarity v Solidarity Two Islams clash Basque bungle Poles and prejudice Wet, wet, wet Gordon Brown, the lonely chancellor The B factor Liberal lament Strife on the Seine ReprintsBut Mr Berlusconi is not in a retiring mood.
But this doesn't excuse Mr Cameron's bungle.
It was the result of a bungle: a bureaucratic rule-change misleadingly announced and over-excitedly reported.
A well-handled disaster can strengthen an incumbent president (just as a Katrina-level bungle is a political, as well as human disaster).Mitt Romney cancelled events planned for Monday night and Tuesday, citing the need to avoid putting supporters in danger or tying up emergency services.
Despite this public-relations bungle, issuing the warrants marks a big step towards ending impunity for those guilty of the worst atrocities.
