France lost both matches as the competition ultimately ended in disastrous competitively and personally due to the players going on strike in response to its disagreement over the expulsion of striker Nicolas Anelka from the team.
But while Basel were successful with all four of their attempts, Huddlestone's miss and then Adebayor's skied effort ensured that Tottenham have now lost their last seven shoot-outs in all competitions – a disastrous run that now stretches back nearly 20 years.
In a statement, Virgin Atlantic said Friday that it was still pursuing a deal with Lufthansa to buy BMI and said that giving I.A.G. an even larger market share at Heathrow would be "disastrous for consumer choice and competition".
The FDA must retain the option to unleash real competition against a disastrous status quo in the tobacco industry.
Intellectual-property lawyers say that defeat for IMS, though ostensibly good for competition, would send a disastrous signal to companies of all sorts, curbing their incentive to invest and innovate in order to create valuable intellectual property.
For now there is simply disappointment at the absence for Thursday's final of a man who represented a genuine British medal hope, and who despite an illustrious history of competition has endured a disastrous home Games.
In the early 1970s, the policy response was something known as Competition and Credit Control, an utterly disastrous initiative whereby Threadneedle Street abandoned lending curbs and relied solely on its operations in the financial markets to control the money supply.
This is a debate that continues to play out at large - the FCC is debating net neutrality in light of the disastrous Comcast-Time Warner bid - but we need competition and cooperation among messaging app developers, too.
Kodak, facing fierce competition from overseas and suffering from disastrous forays into new businesses, had been maintaining what many called a bloated bureaucracy.
Although he told me, "I really hate confrontation, and antagonism of any kind, even competition," he consistently finds himself in disastrous confrontations with people who should be his allies.
