Word: misreadings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statement to TIME, Freeport argues that its stock is "significantly undervalued," in part because Wall Street has misread Indonesia's political mood. Freeport notes it will reduce debt $200 million in 1999, and has received permission to boost ore production at Grasberg from 220,000 tons a day to 300,000 tons in exchange for doubling its royalty payments to the government...
...Senate Republican leaders finally realized they had handed the Democrats a choice issue," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "They opted to play their base but they misread the current public mood." Ever since the Littleton massacre, the NRA and its allies in Congress have known that more gun control legislation was headed their way. The issue was how to deflect the effort without looking insensitive. "Republicans thought they could get some cover with their voluntary proposal," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "but it didn?t work." A big question now, says Dickerson, "is whether they will have...
...manager. Their unfortunate decision to use fictitious after-work jaunts with Bob's socially inept coworker William Detweiller (Kirk Hanson '99) and his wife Mary (Erica Rabbit '00) as a means of covering up their late-night meetings leads to a sequence of embarrassing dinner parties, misread signals, and confused assumptions on the part of almost everyone involved. Place all of this on a bi-level stage that shows both the Phillips and Foster homes at once and you'll begin to understand just what Aristotle would have been so upset about...
...lead as the remaining 11 boats set out for Cape Horn and Uruguay. Hoping to gain time, Autissier opted for a southern route through what navigators call the Screaming 50s because of the violence of the seas. But one day as she was studying weather maps below, the autopilot misread the wind. The boat veered sharply and rolled over so quickly that Autissier barely had time to seal the cabin. "Everything was a wreck," she later told TIME via satellite. "The compartment was full of oil and diesel, and water was everywhere." Still, she dared not risk abandoning ship...
...they misread Disney. In his dark and brilliant Pinocchio and the hugely ambitious Fantasia, he would stretch technique to the limits. But the latter film, rich as it was in unforgettable animation, is also full of banalities. It exposed the fact that, as film historian David Thomson says, "his prettiness had no core or heart...