NESN, following the double-play debacle, had invited viewers to participate in a poll about Ortiz's fate.
Sure, it's reckless and dirty in places, but I like to think that the debate debacle, the double-speak, the empty polemics, and mostly the tragicomic cynicism and short-term memory of the electorate are on-the-money, like Clinton DNA on a blue dress.
There was some ugly cricket at times but that was what was needed" Bell had been under pressure after his double failure in the fourth Test debacle at Headingley, but he was not getting carried away with his best Test score since making 199 against South Africa at Lord's last summer.
Witness the financial crises of 2008, the Bank of America debacle, the Goldman-Sachs double dealings, J.P.Morgan Chase alleged miscalculations, suspected collusion in setting the Libor rates and most recently, the use of customer funds to stave off M.F.
Some predict a repeat, on an even more calamitous scale, of the debacle that followed the doubling of NIH funding between 1998 and 2003, when institutions that had taken on unsustainable numbers of scientists underwent a shakeout fatal to countless careers.
Throughout this debacle, costs were often doubled because the district hired workers whose job was to hire workers.
The whole sorry saga has been a double blast from the unhappy past: the expenses debacle is back, and so is the sad sight of a public figure feeling obliged to conceal his homosexuality.
Clinton's Elian debacle as Exhibit A -- one double-crosses Cuban-American voters at their own peril.
Concern has only risen as private mortgage lenders have retreated; the GSEs' share of monthly issuance of mortgage securities has doubled, to 84%, since 2006.Curbs imposed after the accounting debacle limited the damage this time.
We "ganbei-ed" for the umpteenth time, the girlfriend laughed and laughed, practically doubling over, and neither The New York Times nor the debacle of the show were mentioned at all.
