Word: blunder
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Front-page stories in Britain now routinely question whether Blair lied to make his case, was lied to by the Americans or was the victim of a major intelligence blunder. A parliamentary inquiry is likely. Blair has a reputation for aggressive spinning, and if it's proved that he torqued up WMD evidence to serve his p.r. needs, he might even be pushed toward resignation. An intelligence official told the BBC that a dubious claim in the WMD dossier Blair released last September--that some of Saddam's troops were trained to deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes--was penned...
According to Barnes, the soldiers named this blunder “The Invasion of the Onion Field...
...seemed like a colossal blunder at the time,” says Sherwood E. Bain ’45, who has analyzed and written about Harvard’s finances for years as a Boston investment banker...
...comedy of this nature. An attempt at resolution is tacked on at movie’s end, but offers little satisfaction to the viewers, who have emotionally invested too much in these two characters to deserve a cop-out conclusion. This is perhaps the film’s greatest blunder; it has too many elements of a movie that it is not trying to be. Emotionally the film may pack a wallop, but comically, it’s nothing more than a soft blow...
...they were at fault for allowing such an ignorant statement to be published. The next step is assuring that these incidents do not repeat themselves, even if this means briefing reporters beforehand to be especially sensitive to ethnic issues on campus. I agree that this may have been a blunder that was overlooked, a silly mistake of editors and writers exhausted from a long day. Yet when minority issues are so often misrepresented, when the consequences of such mistakes can affect the future of so many people, and when action is not taken to remedy statements that could...