Word: blunderer
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Paying college athletes might seem practical on the surface. But it would be a potentially fatal blunder...
...Henry Foster's nomination as Surgeon General of the U.S. was thrown into chaos today after Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) urged President Clinton to withdraw his choice, calling it "a political blunder in the extreme." He then reversed himself, explaining that he was criticizing White House handling of the nomination but had reached no decision as to how he will vote. Earlier, a stinging New York Times editorial called the pick "badly bungled" and one that should "die quickly." The powerful American Medical Association, which speaks for about 300,000 U.S. doctors, strongly supported Foster today, though its endorsement...
...Chechnya is far worse than a dip in the Russian road to democracy, and the Administration is well aware of it. The war is a colossal blunder. The Russians managed to lurch out of two years of dithering, during which they ignored the republic's secession, into a sudden overreaction and a total military and political disaster...
...perils. And he sees more proof in the offing: after the peso's plunge, with Mexican labor even cheaper, American jobs will head south en masse. The poorly concealed glee of NAFTA's foes gives the Clinton Administration yet another thing to get defensive about. If NAFTA was a blunder, then doubts arise about the centerpiece of Clintonomics: free trade, as in NAFTA, GATT and plans for Pacific Rim and Pan-American trade zones...
...mass universe. There could also be, as some astrophysicists believe, a "cosmological constant," a sort of universal antigravity force that would make the universe look younger than it really is. Albert Einstein invented that concept as part of general relativity, then renounced it as "the greatest blunder of my life." It's still considered a long shot, but, says Princeton astrophysicist Ed Turner, "people are now going to start looking harder at cosmological constants again...