Word: blunderer
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...comedy of this nature. An attempt at resolution is tacked on at movie’s end, but offers little satisfaction to the viewers, who have emotionally invested too much in these two characters to deserve a cop-out conclusion. This is perhaps the film’s greatest blunder; it has too many elements of a movie that it is not trying to be. Emotionally the film may pack a wallop, but comically, it’s nothing more than a soft blow...
...they were at fault for allowing such an ignorant statement to be published. The next step is assuring that these incidents do not repeat themselves, even if this means briefing reporters beforehand to be especially sensitive to ethnic issues on campus. I agree that this may have been a blunder that was overlooked, a silly mistake of editors and writers exhausted from a long day. Yet when minority issues are so often misrepresented, when the consequences of such mistakes can affect the future of so many people, and when action is not taken to remedy statements that could...
...Watson and Crick build a model of DNA as a triple helix. Franklin immediately spots their major blunder...
Watson turned grudgingly to work on the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus, and Crick went back to hemoglobin. But no mere lab director could keep them from talking about dna between themselves. And while their blunder the first time around had been dispiriting, it didn't discourage them. After all, they had no reputations to be tarnished. And if they had come to the wrong conclusions based on incomplete information and a dumb mistake, that was just an incentive to get better information and be more careful next time...
...valuing once-moribund Crédit Lyonnais at €19.5 billion. Laurent remains CEO - for the moment - but the man to watch is new chairman René Carron, who's also a dairy farmer. "We went a bit higher but not that much higher" as a result of the blunder, he said sheepishly...