mishandle

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Mazón, of the conservative People's Party, has already said this month he is stepping down as regional leader due to a perception that he and his administration mishandled the crisis.

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By the 1970s, half the town worked in the mills, but when the steelworks closed in the 1980s, toxic waste from the demolition process was mishandled, leading to widespread contamination.

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He wrote that Riverside Unified was “completely out of control” and “mishandling this situation.”

From Los Angeles Times

Sony “will continue to fight CBS’s egregious mishandling of these beloved shows and will take all necessary legal actions to protect our rights,” the company said in a Thursday statement.

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In a social media post, he accused the Federal Reserve and its chairman Jerome Powell of mishandling the economy, saying they had "failed to stop the problem they created with Inflation".

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