Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation does not look so bleak. The Hubble blunder is a serious setback, but NASA engineers have found ways to computer-enhance the telescope's images so that they are not as blurry as the first ones received. More important, in the 12 years it took to develop and launch the Hubble, the technology of ground-based telescopes has rapidly improved. In fact, techniques under development could enable earthbound telescopes to do many things the Hubble was supposed...
Doug Sosnick, political director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said that since Dimaura's blunder over the Bank of New England, "I've taken that race off the screen...
...Hubble Space Telescope's devolution from Wonder of the Age to Blunder of the Century continued without letup last week. For one thing, the Associated Press reported that Perkin-Elmer Corp., which built the flawed mirror on the telescope, gave a subcontractor backward drawings for part of the telescope's guidance system -- forcing the prime contractor to pay the San Diego-based subcontractor, Composite Optics Inc., to rebuild it. Composite Optics reportedly made a tidy 63% profit...
Tourism Minister Olivier Stirn, who sponsored the symposium, blamed overzealous Socialist Party members for the blunder. Commented a headline in the daily Liberation: RIDICULE CAN BE FATAL. The words proved prophetic. Later that day the Prime Minister's office announced Stirn's resignation...
...Wall was due not to strategic planning, but to a sudden loss of nerve. A single ambiguous sentence uttered at a press conference, a mere slip of the tongue, was enough to start an avalanche. The unification of Germany was set off not by grand design but by a blunder...