Word: blunder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Watson and Crick build a model of DNA as a triple helix. Franklin immediately spots their major blunder...
Watson turned grudgingly to work on the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus, and Crick went back to hemoglobin. But no mere lab director could keep them from talking about dna between themselves. And while their blunder the first time around had been dispiriting, it didn't discourage them. After all, they had no reputations to be tarnished. And if they had come to the wrong conclusions based on incomplete information and a dumb mistake, that was just an incentive to get better information and be more careful next time...
...valuing once-moribund Crédit Lyonnais at €19.5 billion. Laurent remains CEO - for the moment - but the man to watch is new chairman René Carron, who's also a dairy farmer. "We went a bit higher but not that much higher" as a result of the blunder, he said sheepishly...
McDonough has reportedly accepted a job to announce New York Mets games this season, possibly replacing Gary Thorne in the press box. If the Red Sox do not make an eleventh-hour move to save McDonough, it will be just one more blunder in a franchise unfortunately known for errors...
...another blunder, the campaign produced posters bearing the names of both candidates. When the council tallies the cost of the campaign, these posters will count against both Darst and Simon’s budgets, effectively charging the campaign twice for each poster...