Damaging a flagship event like the Festival would be an unforgivable act of stupidity for any ruling body, and Bittar has eight weeks to get some serious changes through or risk a fiasco.
The risk-management fiasco at JPMorgan was an obvious failing, but directors of public companies often let down their outside shareholders in ways that are more subtle, but equally important, say some experts on public company board practices.
Faced with the risk of a fiasco at next summer's Lambeth conference a once-a-decade gathering in England for all the communion's bishops the Americans were pondering how far they could go to meet conservative demands that they stop elevating gay bishops and blessing same-sex couples.
Google and others escaped a click-fraud debacle, but the more money that pours into the market, the greater the risk for a fiasco becomes.
Mr. Paterson, whose popularity has been in decline since he let the appointment of a senator to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton drag on into a credibility-dinging fiasco, risks another potentially embarrassing setback — this time at the hands of the state's highest court.
Without it, Japan's government risks the biggest cleanup fiasco of all: a decontamination effort that carries huge financial and environmental costs but still fails to convince Fukushima residents that their homes, farms, and forests are safe once again.
As the Norfolk and Norwich hospital fiasco shows, the risk costing bears no relation to any actual hazard taken on by the contractors.
Politicians of both parties have learned from the Solyndra fiasco about the risks, financial and political, of spending taxpayer money on solar and other renewables, given their continuing problems competing in the marketplace.
The fiasco highlights the risks of major platforms working with third-party developers to brings outside and crowdsourced content into their apps.
A piecemeal response to Corston would risk another care in the community fiasco.
