Word: blunderer
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...trying to retain as much of the $20 million as they could for the university's core endowment. They favored filling the four junior positions with existing faculty. Kagan and other original planners of the program resigned from the committee, and a new one was formed. In a colossal blunder, Levin failed to inform Bass of these changes, and when the new group expressed concerns, the members were told, according to a university source, "Don't worry about the donor...
...Americans' plight Tuesday morning, State Department officials began quietly negotiating for their release, hoping to avoid turning them into hostages to Saddam's agenda. White House officials declined to identify the two men or say what they had been doing in the region. "It was a mistake, a blunder on their part," said Defense Secretary William Perry, who was visiting Saudi Arabia last week...
...idea known as hot dark matter, and an even older one called the cosmological constant. The latter is a kind of cosmic antigravity that gives the expanding universe an extra outward push; it was first conceived by Albert Einstein himself, who then rejected it as "the greatest blunder of my life." Each of these ideas is still floating around, championed by its own corps of diehards...
EINSTEIN'S BIGGEST BLUNDER: Even at an optimum age of 12 billion years, the universe is too young to accommodate 14 billion-year-old stars, so even the radical step of abandoning the inflation theory might not be enough to resolve the age crisis. But there could be a solution that allows inflation to remain. All the theorists have to do is throw out another of their cherished beliefs: that Einstein was right when he repudiated his concept of a cosmological constant. Says Princeton physicist Jim Peebles: "People hate the cosmological constant. I used to hate...
...screen, a cartoon elf or sprite or something pokes its head out from behind a window, then draws it back. No, I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic -- this is the much-hyped intelligent agent who comes with the box. I ignore it, make my escape from Gameland and blunder into a lurid district of the Metaverse where thousands of infomercials run day and night, each in its own window. I watch an ad for Chinese folk medicines made from rare-animal parts, genetically engineered and grown in vats. Grizzly-bear gallbladders are shown growing like bunches of grapes...