Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President won on much of the substance; he also won on tactics. Before the budget was approved, Dole committed a major blunder when he rashly challenged Clinton to negotiate with him one on one, only to watch in horror as the White House's rapid-response team persuaded chief of staff Leon Panetta to accept almost at once. It was an offer that Dole could make but couldn't accept. "We'll see how it looks," he said in retreat. On the Republican right, and not just there, they think Clinton mesmerized Gingrich in the December balanced-budget talks...
During the spring outage, a valve was accidentally left open, spilling 12,000 gal. of reactor-coolant water--a blunder that further shook Galatis' faith. He began to see problems almost everywhere he looked and proposed the creation of a global-issues task force to find out whether Millstone was safe enough to go back online. His bosses agreed. But when the head of the task force left for a golf vacation a few weeks before the plant was scheduled to start up, Galatis says, he knew it wasn't a serious effort. So he made a call to Ernest...
Ironically, in what may have been the most disappointing performance of the weekend, Harvard's 400m relay team was disqualified after the baton was mishandled in the exchange between Williams and freshman Lee Shearer. However, the blunder will not prevent the relay team from competing in the ECAC Championships this weekend, an invitational meet at Boston University...
...hockey team this season, the Crimson is still committing some fundamental errors that are costing it garbage goals. After bombarding St. Lawrence goalie Clint Owen in a furious offensive assault for most of the second period, the Crimson gave up its fourth goal on a two-on-one defensive blunder...
...political blunder sure to provoke nostalgia for the Nixon Administration: the Wall Street Journal reported that Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary hired a Washington firm to investigate reporters and news organizations in an effort to determine the sources of negative stories about the department. Though O'Leary got a stern rebuke from the White House, it decided she could stay at her post...