Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Governor the issue, with uneven success. Wilson has a solid reputation as a municipal manager. But his inexpert handling of Brown's attacks has cost him his once sizable lead, and the race now seems close to a dead heat, with each side hoping that the other will blunder in the waning days of the campaign...
...week laid down an aggressive line for G.O.P. campaigners, which he will repeat in the next ten days at rallies in New Mexico, Nevada, Texas and Ohio. Its essence is to slide over the unhappy present and dwell on a future of sound, noninflationary growth in contrast to the blunder-filled Democratic past...
...uncharacteristic legal blunder by Mitchelson could also harm Perry's case. He disclosed to several reporters last week that his client would actually drop her case if Atkinson would again impregnate her, artificially or naturally...
...course there is nothing wrong with making movies--or books or paintings, for that matter--that depend on the irrational rather than the rational; to disparage that would be to blunder into an ageless debate over the merits of faith versus reason--a debate that shows no signs of resolving itself. But there is something unsettling about the way Spielberg and Lucas, in their passion for faith, take pot-shots at reason...
...many, Napolitano's act of plagiarism itself was shocking, Yes, Grandma, cheating pervades campuses these days--even within the prestigious Ivied walls. But what made the senior's blunder news-worthy was her unprecedented retaliatory action Napolitano sued Princeton, confessing to the plagiarism rap but claiming that the University had denied her "due process" under law. Napolitano fought in court for her diploma and lost, though she has vowed to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. She told Time magazine. "My whole purpose is to avoid having the label of plagiarist attached for the rest...