Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...succeeded Trudeau only nine days earlier and could have called for a vote as late as next spring, Turner decided to take advantage of opinion polls that showed his party with an eleven-point lead over the Tories. Immediately, however, the new Prime Minister committed his first major blunder: he reappointed nearly all Trudeau's ministers to his own Cabinet. Bowing to pressure from his predecessor, Turner also awarded cushy patronage posts to 17 Liberal colleagues...
...question when someone asked him whether the American could be beaten. "No," he said, and then added, no doubt with some Asian equivalent of crossed fingers, "not at this moment." Louganis, 24, says revealingly that he does not think of diving as a competition-unless he makes a rare blunder, he has no competition-but as a difficult performance, to be done in order to give the greatest pleasure possible. He prefers outdoor meets, like the one last week at the Olympics, "because of the blue sky." Of course: the sky is a splendid stage setting...
Manatt was kept on, but with a watchful Mondale loyalist, Michael Berman, installed as director-and de facto ruler-of the D.N.C., and Lance was given overall charge of the Mondale campaign. It had been a damaging blunder: not only had Mondale saddled himself with an unseemly link to the Carter Administration; he had seemed weak and vacillating in handling the uproar. Said Campaign Chairman James Johnson: "We did it in a clumsy way, and we wish we hadn...
What mattered most, however, was New Jersey and California, two states that were considered somewhat similar in their demographic makeup but turned out to be in contrasting political moods. Hart's blunder in lamenting that he had to campaign in New Jersey amid toxic wastes 'while his wife had the pleasure of stumping California had hurt him in the sensitive Garden State, which lives in New York's shadow. Mondale, on the other hand, could not overcome Hart's more macho appeal in California, where the image of a Colorado outdoorsman backed by a bevy of movie celebrities gets...
...campaigns in California while I campaign in New Jersey." When Mrs. Hart interjected, "I got to hold a koala bear," Hart sniggered, "I won't tell you what I got to hold: samples from a toxic-waste dump." Voters in California chuckled; many in New Jersey smoldered. The blunder undercut Hart's best pitch: that New Jersey epitomizes the future he envisions, a state successfully making the transition from moribund heavy industry to high-tech growth...