Word: blundered
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...what appears to have been a verbal blunder, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said in a speech at Harvard Medical School (HMS) today that South Korea currently possesses nuclear weapons and is developing a long-range missile program...
...could both Bonn and Washington blunder into such a degrading fuss over an event that was intended to be a moving, soothing and mutually constructive experience? The origins go back more than a year ago, when plans for the observance of the Normandy invasion anniversary were carefully worked out by officials in Washington, London and Paris. Kohl was not invited to participate, since this was seen as a celebration of the wartime victory over the Germans rather than a time for the victor to join hands with the vanquished. Kohl was miffed, and his resentment lingered. When it turned...
...weeks, the tightly knit world of market research has been abuzz with gossip about Coke's mistake. "It appears to be a colossal marketing blunder," says George Mihaly, head of the consulting division of Crossley Surveys. Mihaly discovered widespread adverse reaction to the new Coke while conducting an unrelated study of upper-level managers. When asked for their opinion of the change in Coke, all the executives gave it a negative review. Since he had done some work for Coke in the past, Mihaly told, his findings to high-level contacts at the company. The early warnings were apparently ignored...
...What brings on the fever is that while wagging his finger, he bungles the facts. In some cases, he matches blunder-for-blunder the press corps sins that he's cataloging, mirroring precisely the things he likes least about the press. He cherry picks facts to fit his theories about how the press cherry picks facts to fit their theories. He is relentlessly negative about a press corps he claims is relentlessly negative. Unfortunately, it makes for a misleading revisitation of how the press and the President interacted during his tenure, and it undermines many of his larger criticism...
...republic, the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the money-obsessed Deng Xiaoping era, Jintong's feisty sisters are killed off by war and other masculine misdeeds. And, as in other Mo Yan novels, peasants suffer and bleed while Communist functionaries strut, blunder and suck the country dry as Jintong's mother's breasts. The lad survives, though not without 15 years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast, my mouth would fill with saliva," he confesses...