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Although I am supporting Bill Clinton, I was hardly elated by Brown's "blunder." It is hard to feel anything but sorrow and anger at this spectacle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jews' Condemnation of Jesse Jackson Is Racist, Unfair | 4/21/1992 | See Source »

...first kosher transition of government since the 1940s), and then proceeded to blunder on his economic program, boldly seizing the banks and in the process terrifying the establishment. At the same time, hyperinflation raged (prices went up literally 200 million percent) and unemployment soared...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Post-Coup Peru | 4/10/1992 | See Source »

...would not have happened in the particular way they did without the president of the Soviet Union and his remarkable approach. To name Gorbachev a "tragic, almost pathetic figure," as one of the so-called experts, Morton Zuckerman of U.S. News and World Report, recently did, is a historical blunder caused by mediocre reasoning...

Author: By Ozan Tarman, | Title: Selling Gorby Short | 11/9/1991 | See Source »

...hoping we blunder through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Punch Is Better Than Ever | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...ultimately disruptive. I used to root enthusiastically for my favorite sports teams, but more often than not that just led to diappointment. Red Sox fans were quite excited when their team made it to the 1986 World Series. Most of them are still sulking about Bill Buckner's blunder. The truth is that they would have been much better off if the team had just won 75 games or so. Then they could have immediately begun complaining about the team's pitching woes and their prospects for the next season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yes, I'm Bored. And I Like It. | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

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