Word: misreads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most difficult challenges. Our biggest problems are the economy and the Communist insurgency. I believe you can't solve the one without working at the other. The Communist leadership here either misread or misjudged the last election. In effect, they worked against me. But the past is the past, and it is better for us to look ahead and work together because of the enormity of our problems...
Even some of Reagan's supporters feel he made a basic political misjudgment by jumping into the debate over sanctions with nothing new to offer at a time when something more was needed. He seemed also to misread the depth of sentiment on the issue. While just about everyone is repelled by the oppression in South Africa and thinks something should be done about it, there is no clear consensus on what. Reagan, by heightening the visibility of the subject without offering a solution, succeeded only in exposing his own policies to closer inspection and greater criticism...
...Eurocommunists also misread the pulse of a new generation of voters. While they promoted an agenda of disarmament, peace and democracy, they failed to offer voters a concrete program that would tackle the consumer-oriented concerns of the 1980s, such as inflation and unemployment. Says Pierre Hassner, a French expert on Communist affairs: "The Communist Party has become a party of another era. It's old-fashioned, and that's political suicide...
...ceilings on damage awards in Florida, unlike those in Colorado, would apply only to injuries suffered after July 1. Thus the predeadline stampede there was unnecessary. Lawyers, who get paid large sums for understanding statutes, had apparently misread the Florida...
...plane to Hong Kong and turned the craft over to Taiwan. That represented a major concession by Peking's negotiators, who had originally demanded that Taiwan send a delegation to the mainland to pick up the jet. Taiwan rejected the proposal outright for fear that it might be misread as an implicit recognition of the Communist government. A Taipei official insisted last week that the island's policy toward Peking was still "no contact, no negotiations and no compromise...