Word: blunderer
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...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...
...wasn't long before objective observers began to realize that what Rosovsky had legislated was an educational blunder that far overshadowed the ultimate misfortune of General Education. The core quickly disintegrated into the same kind of "rifle shot" narrow courses within broad fields of learning that ruined General Education...
...nuclear facilities. As tensions with North Korea began to look serious, members of Congress worried aloud about the safety of the 35,000 troops deployed in the South, along with their 11,000 dependents. They and hundreds of thousands of Koreans could die if the adversaries launch -- or blunder into -- another...