Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also likely to emerge from the controversy slightly battered. His staff turned in less than stellar performances in preparing and bringing off the trip. Chief of Staff Donald Regan, though brand-new to the White House when the early planning occurred, failed to recognize the seriousness of the Bitburg blunder and to cut the President's losses. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, who is expected to be nominated as the next U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, embarrassed U.S. officials in Bonn by walking out on a press briefing. Evidently angered by a couple of interruptions in his presentation...
...speech, showed some signs of greater realism. While remaining feisty, he for once made no reference to his re-election, apparently realizing that the mandate argument had worn thin. It has, and so has the first-term description of Reagan as the Teflon President, the man to whom no blunder would stick. Over time even Teflon can be scratched...
...well over the months, but the toll on Karpov was high. He has reportedly lost 15 lbs. since September, and is said to have been treated for exhaustion and strain at a clinic for the party elite. Two weeks ago, Karpov, normally an icily precise defensive genius, began to blunder. Kasparov drove to victory in the 47th and then the 48th game. Meanwhile, he says, Soviet chess officials had begun quietly pressuring him to agree to end the match. Shortly thereafter, Campomanes appeared in Moscow, amid rumors that the Soviets, who are heavily represented in the world federation, had summoned...
...first, however, Harvard, couldn't take advantage of Abrecht's blunder. After a over a minute and a half and six or seven good shots, it looked like Princeton and goalie Dave Marotta, in particular, had succeeded in killing off both penalties...
...bonuses that company executives gave themselves. GM Chairman Roger Smith last year got a bonus of $865,490 on top of his salary of $625,000. While the award might have been merited in view of the $3.7 billion GM earned in 1983, it was a dreadful labor relations blunder. Workers, who had been enduring wage freezes for more than two years, were outraged. Robert Sidwell, 45, a machinist at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, still has neither forgotten nor forgiven. Said he last week: "One man doesn't deserve that much. I don't care...