Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appoint a special prosecutor, and they are trying to recoup their reputations at my expense. I'm a big trophy. Well, I'm not going to fall down and be his [Petersen's] victim, I can assure you." He added that Petersen had not only mishandled Watergate but, through "blunder," had also prevented the successful prosecution of high crime figures because of wiretapping errors...
...years ago, synthetic leather seemed likely to appear in business histories only as an example of a rare product-development blunder by Du Pont. Corfam, its much touted leather lookalike, brought out in 1964, was expected to do for shoes what nylon had done for stockings. But demand never rose as much as Du Pont had hoped, partly because consumers complained that Corfam shoes pinched and roasted their feet. By 1971 Du Pont admitted defeat and wrote off the effort as a $100 million bust. Now it appears that Du Pont's real mistake was giving up too soon...
...statement disclosing the widespread use of domestic eavesdropping under the cloak of national security, Safire wondered: "At what point does the defense of our system corrupt our system?" When it was revealed that the President had taped his office and telephone conversations, Safire criticized Nixon's "horrendous blunder...
...Accounting Office charged the Agriculture Department with "weakness in managing" the sale. Last week the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee took up the grain sales in hearings marked by heated exchanges between Chairman Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. Jackson called the grain sale "a monumental blunder born in Government secrecy and bureaucratic negligence...
...less livestock than they had planned. The price freeze resulted in even lower production of hogs and chickens. Phase IV regulations, which will keep beef prices frozen until Sept. 12, will further hold down beef production. Explains Bill Jones, executive vice president of the National Livestock Feeders Association: "This blunder is likely to jeopardize supplies because feeders will hold their cattle off the market until after Sept. 12 to get a better price...