Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfect, but he is principled. He will blunder, but he has vision...
...series of incomplete and sometimes conflicting remarks that were to continue piecemeal throughout the campaign. In April aides urged him to call a press conference at which he would answer questions until reporters had nothing left to ask; he refused, in what now appears to have been a major blunder. Clinton did eventually develop a fairly effective answer of sorts: right through the fall debates with Bush and Perot, he has argued that voters should be far more concerned with how a candidate proposes to heal the ailing economy than with "character" issues. Many indeed are, and the Gennifer Flowers...
While danceable, "the untitled album" is notPrince's best work. It hardly lives up to thestandards he set for himself--and for modernrock--with his previous records. We can only hopethat with his versatility, musical genius andpenchant for reinvention, Prince will get back ontrack and never release an artistic blunder likethis again...
Fortunately, there is a way out of this logical blind alley. All lies, regardless of their relationship to the truth, have one thing in common. "We must single out," writes Sissela Bok in Lying, "from the countless ways in which we blunder misinformed through life, that which is done with the intention to mislead." Lies may confuse everyone who hears them, as they are meant to, but liars know exactly what they are doing while they are doing it. In Telling Lies, Paul Ekman, a professor of psychology at the University of California medical school in San Francisco, provides...
...exodus of top managerial talent. In the past two years, TWA has lost its chief operating officer, general counsel, senior vice presidents of finance, marketing, flight operations and strategic planning, plus its vice presidents of advertising, government affairs, compensation, public affairs and maintenance operations. Perhaps Icahn's biggest managerial blunder was engaging in a series of unwinnable fare wars with the industry's big eagles: United, American and Delta. Subsequent price cutting helped land TWA in bankruptcy court last January...