Word: blunders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dean Harry Lewis addressed parents on the issue of choosing a concentration. Lewis's piece, "A Message from the Dean: On Concentrations," appears on the front cover of the newsletter with an inset photograph of the dean. Lewis, apparently with a concentration problem of his own, submitted the academic blunder which read as follows...
...probably know, Greaseman, a Washington-based talk-show host, recently made a real strategic blunder. On his national radio show two weeks ago, which is pretty distasteful ("greasy") to begin with, he said this of black people after playing a clip from Lauryn Hill's 5-grammy winning album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: "No wonder people drag them behind trucks...
...many Republicans in Congress and beyond, blocking a censure resolution would be the last great political blunder in a year-long Clinton scandal that has unified Democrats and nearly crippled the G.O.P. "Republicans need the cover as much as Democrats do," warns Ken Duberstein, a former Reagan White House chief of staff and Republican Party elder. "Just because Democrats want it doesn't make...
Gates was, in his own field, just as much the boy wonder. He started his first computer company, Traf-O-Data, in high school. After dropping out of Harvard to build Microsoft, he hit the big time at 25 when IBM made an epic blunder in letting him retain the rights to the operating system Microsoft developed for IBM's PCs. Gates, who spent most of his waking hours among computers, turned as inward as the glad-handing Clinton turned outward. New acquaintances traded tales of his bad haircuts, dirty glasses and odd rocking motion. His early reluctance to give...
...concerned him was that the press's eye had wandered since Clinton's Aug. 17 confession. Too many shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom with Monica Lewinsky. It was fear of increasing scandal fatigue that prompted Gingrich's biggest blunder of the campaign: devising, testing and spending $10 million on TV spots reminding voters of what a snake the President was--a subject the electorate was trying to forget...