Word: blunder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gore campaign's gamble on Florida could turn out to be a brilliant battlefield maneuver, but it could also be remembered as a fatal blunder. Bush aides say the Vice President's concentration of time and money on the Sunshine State has cost him in other regions. "They thought they could fight us on our own turf in Florida," says Matthew Dowd, Bush's polling guru, "but while they were doing that, they let things slip" elsewhere. When the Texas Governor began running ads in traditionally Democratic West Virginia last summer, the Gore campaign responded for a few weeks, then...
...TIME: So why did Zedillo do this? SALINAS: It was a real blunder. Any professional economist knows that if you want to devalue, you do so with proper international backing, and you never do it between Monday and Friday, and you never do it in December when you have most liquidity. All of which he did. And then they took two months to put an economic program into effect, and in that period, domestic interest rates went from 15% to 110% . There was no way that anyone could pay their bills. Zedillo tried to cover this up with...
...come back to life," says a Republican who had worked on the G.O.P. ads that never ran. "It was a great blunder." Once Gore got his footing and started throwing out policy positions like knuckle balls aimed at Bush's head, Bush faced a different challenge: to make the case that issues don't matter without character. Though Bush at times makes an ideological pitch, that he trusts the people with their own money while Gore puts his faith in archaic bureaucracies, it may never be sharp enough to punch through general contentment. So Bush is left trying to argue...
...find themselves in a room together: "I actually feel quite slighted by my rooming assignment. I wish I'd been put in Mass Hall because it predates the revolution" states Ricky. Surely, Ricky was guaranteed a spot in Mass Hall by putting a '2' for quietness. Yet, in another blunder in his housing assignment, Ricky was assigned to a roommate who had put a '3' for quietness, thus ruining his chances at sharing a 'flat' with President Rudenstine. But as things stand, the roommates get along because, as Carlos puts it: "we keep different schedules" (pronounced she-du-ehls...
...strategy carried risks--notably that Bush would start to seem not just tough but Visigothic. That problem was solved when McCain made his one colossal blunder of the campaign--a move Bush aides call "a gift...