Word: blunders
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...negotiators despaired of settling the funding questions in advance and agreed to reopen the issue in Rio. Some observers think the Group of 77 may have made a tactical blunder by pushing so hard for financial and technical aid. Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the U.N., has called it a "diplomatic mistake of the highest magnitude." Others criticize the Earth Summit organizers, who by putting so many environmental problems on the negotiating table may have inadvertently ensured that none of them get solved...
...what may have been the prosecutors' biggest blunder, they chose not to let King take the stand. Having him testify might have exposed King, who once served time for robbery, to damaging cross-examination. But it would also have compelled the jurors to come face to face with the obscure figure in the videotape. And King could have countered the defense attorneys' contention that he had not been badly injured by the beating. One of the lawyers went so far as to argue that King was not even hit in the head, a claim that he supported with photographs taken...
Although I am supporting Bill Clinton, I was hardly elated by Brown's "blunder." It is hard to feel anything but sorrow and anger at this spectacle...
...first kosher transition of government since the 1940s), and then proceeded to blunder on his economic program, boldly seizing the banks and in the process terrifying the establishment. At the same time, hyperinflation raged (prices went up literally 200 million percent) and unemployment soared...
...would not have happened in the particular way they did without the president of the Soviet Union and his remarkable approach. To name Gorbachev a "tragic, almost pathetic figure," as one of the so-called experts, Morton Zuckerman of U.S. News and World Report, recently did, is a historical blunder caused by mediocre reasoning...