Word: blunders
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...Today, this appears to be as big a blunder as the West's sales of weapons to Saddam Hussein in the 1970s, which enabled him to invade Iran. That war gave Tehran's faltering clerical regime a nationalist legitimacy that only now, almost 20 years later, is fraying. And then Saddam invaded Kuwait, leading to America's last...
Next up was Merloni, who had botched a grounder mere minutes before that could have resulted in an inning-ending double play instead of an eventual Yankee run. Merloni couldn’t atone for his blunder and struck out, giving Mussina his 13th K of the game and putting him within an out of perfection...
...ended up at Nobu with friends, and there was Ermakova, the colossal blunder he didn't make until his career's last day. He was still buzzing with the thrill of his final match, still wanting a piece of the action. Then he was in a closet; standing outside himself for the second time that day, he watched someone named Boris Becker drunkenly sire a daughter. "I had no idea what I was doing," he says. "It wasn't an affair. It was just poom-bah-boom...
...population base doesn't exist there. It would require everyone in New Orleans driving to Mississippi to go to the games," said Perry. "This is a huge corporate blunder on their part...
...EDWIN HUBBLE when: 1927 what he did: Discovered that faraway galaxies all seem to be flying away from Earth, which suggested that the universe was in fact expanding. In doing so, Hubble gave Einstein scientific license to abandon the cosmological constant, whose creation the brilliant physicist dubbed the greatest blunder of his career. In retrospect, it was an inspired guess that could have won him another Nobel Prize...