Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ford's array of new models, however, is a sign of the firm's weakness rather than its strength. Ford lags behind General Motors and Chrysler in the area of frontwheel-drive, gas-efficient cars. Ford's troubles date back to a blunder in 1975, when then Chairman Henry Ford II overruled President Lee lacocca, now Chrysler's chairman, and slowed the development of the firm's front-wheel drives...
...sure, Reagan's announcement that he intended to elevate O'Connor to the highest U.S. Government post ever held by a woman had its roots in partisan politics. Mainly because he had been portrayed by Jimmy Carter as a man who might blunder the nation into war, Reagan had lacked strong support among women in last year's campaign. Moreover, his Administration's record of appointing women to office is very poor: only one highly visible Cabinet-level post (Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick); only 45 women among the 450 highest positions...
Upon his release, Wodehouse committed an innocent but ghastly blunder: he made broadcasts over German radio. He said nothing to comfort the enemy, and after the war antiFascists as scrupulous as George Orwell defended him, but the British public gave him their backs. And so, in 1952, he set up writer's shop in one last improbable place: Long Island...
...President Leonid Brezhnev. Giscard now says that the purpose of his trip was to tell Brezhnev in no uncertain terms that "détente would not survive another blow similar to the invasion of Afghanistan." His critics charged that he looked like an appeaser. "It was a serious diplomatic blunder," Mitterrand said...
...this is another laugh entirely, that neither condemns, praises, ridicules nor conspires, but sees into the essential nature of a slip of the tongue and consequently sympathizes. After all, most human endeavor results in a slip of the something-the best-laid plans gone suddenly haywire by natural blunder: the chair, cake or painting that turns out not exactly as one imagined; the kiss or party that falls flat; the life that is not quite what one had in mind. Nothing is ever as dreamed...