So I possess the intellectual discernment to see that the N.F.L. did not set out to create a network that several gargantuan cable operators, who are certainly not faultless in this fiasco, refuse to bring to their subscribers.
But true to form, the Fiasco team continues to keep things simple, the better to bring out the material's complexity.
Mr Zoellick was instrumental in brokering a tentative agreement to bring developing countries back to the table after the earlier fiasco at Cancún, which some had seen as heralding the demise of the whole multilateral trade-reform effort.
The Enron fiasco has strengthened the call for corporate accountability; the World Economic Forum may spur further debate and action to bring about positive results in an era of global trade and increased corporate influence.
But the cost of that fiasco – around £828m – was pocket-money compared with the much under-reported disaster of Gordon Brown's scheme to bring in private companies to modernise the London Underground.
The fiasco of the Copenhagen climate summit is just one illustration of how far the world is from being able to bring about the desperately needed transition to a system of sustainable and secure provision of energy services.
Either Republicans would sign on to such measures, thus starting to bring the war to an end, or else they would stand firm behind the president, setting themselves up for a political fiasco in 2008.
The Rev. Wright fiasco undermined the fundamental rationale of the entire Obama campaign — that it would be about healing, about putting partisanship aside, about reaching across ethnic and party divisions to bring people together in a new era of cooperation.
The fiasco highlights the risks of major platforms working with third-party developers to brings outside and crowdsourced content into their apps.
It's also true that the company has paid at least $14 billion more in cleanup and other costs since the accident began on April 20 , 2010 bringing the expense of this fiasco to about $30 billion for BP.
