Word: misreadings
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...Easy Going Green The article "Green Motors" was more fantasy than reality [Oct. 22]. GM, like the other American car manufacturers, misread the market, and foreign car manufacturers have filled the void. I remember when President Jimmy Carter first took office and called a meeting of the major American carmakers to tell them we needed small, fuel-efficient cars. Their response was that there was no market for them. Several years ago I saw a magazine advertisement for GM that showed all of its models and indicated that each would soon be available in a hybrid version. Great promise...
...Broomall, Pa.It is an institution that is well worth keeping together. So I took it upon myself to stop the arguing as best I could. It wasn't just the songwriting. It was having to go through life, day to day. Sometimes that is really hard, and things get misread. I tried to heal the wounds and am proud of myself for that...
...Carter was the right candidate for the new politics of values, his party was rapidly moving in the other direction. Educated élites, particularly on the left, increasingly placed their faith in the tangible power of political action rather than the unfathomable might of a divine being. And they misread the direction of the country. Far from becoming less religious in a postmodern age, Americans remained strongly devout, with 80% or more consistently reporting that religion was an "important" part of their lives. A schism widened between the people who ran the Democratic Party and many religious believers...
...many of those statistics are commonly misread. If you look at the raw data, it's clear that while Americans aren't marrying at the Ozzie and Harriet rates of the 1950s, marriage faces no dire threat today. In fact, we may have come to value marriage too much: there's good evidence that it isn't as beneficial for individuals as pro-marriage conservatives would have you believe...
...didn’t misread that...