That account, made public on Wednesday, pointed to fundamental lapses in an intelligence community founded partly for the very purpose of guarding against surprise attacks.
But the pratfalls have been tough to miss, including fundamental lapses in ethics: Casey Anthony, accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, was acquitted of that offense in spite of significant evidence.
Fundamental to the lapses that led to the explosion, the recommendations section of the report finds, were "serious deficiencies in the institution's approach to laboratory safety, [especially the] lack of a culture of safety".
When Halston Lane of Georgia Tech chose not to take an easy layup, but missed a tougher jam, Walton sat by mutely, unmoved verbally by the lapse in fundamental basketball.
The lapses in fundamentals, a recurring theme this sour season, irked Manuel so much that he spoke privately with several players after the game.
Even the reliance on rookies at so many important up-the-middle positions cannot explain the lapses in fundamentals, judgment and sanity by the Eagles' highly touted acquisitions.
The century and three-quarters after Augustus' death brought no fundamental changes to the principate, although so long a lapse of time naturally introduced modifications and shifts of emphasis.
The photo-efficiency of light-sheet microscopy enables long time-lapse imaging of living samples to study fundamental questions in developmental biology.
Some also said that it was fundamental that the NHS should fulfil its duty of care, and that services to prevent lapses in NHS safety should already be in place or be paid for elsewhere in the system.
Pension specialists are hoping Congress will use those two years to make fundamental changes in the pension law itself, so that when the breather expires, the system does not simply lapse back to today's troublesome state.
But Darling said his partner and former teammate resisted harping too much on players' lapses in their fundamentals.
