Word: misreads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Deal," says White House spokesman Mike McCurry, "but it ain't bad." Politically, that is an understatement. Thanks largely to a Republican Congress that misread the public mood as drastically as Clinton did at the start of his term, the once scorned President has generally had a double-digit lead in the polls. He has adopted so many traditional Republican themes that the g.o.p. has nothing much to campaign on except character and taxes. And Bob Dole's tax plan gives Clinton a chance, rare for a Democrat, to run as a fiscal conservative virtuously resisting the seductive appeal...
LAST YEAR THE REPUBLICAN FRESHMEN rolled into Washington toting the Contract with America and vowing to dilute and roll back decades of laws and regulations, including those aimed at ensuring clean air, clean water and unsullied wilderness areas. But because they misread popular sentiment on the environment, the G.O.P. took a beating in the polls on this issue. Now as many as 91 House Republicans are voting with the Democrats on environmental measures. Shortly after the House reconvenes this week, Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to announce the formation of a task force to review the Republican approach...
...could be expanded to other cities, and the killing between the Unionists and Republicans in Northern Ireland could start again. The situation would be back to where it started before the negotiations began." A renewed bombing onslaught is unlikely to force a British capitulation, says Hillenbrand: "The IRA has misread the situation: it can't push the British back to the negotiating table. Still, the IRA's frustration is understandable. The British Government promised talks in exchange for a cease fire and for 18 months, did essentially nothing...
...found an inscription bearing the phrases "House of David" and "King of Israel." The writing - dated to the 9th century B.C., only a century after David's reign - described a victory by a neighboring King over the Israelites. Some minimalists tried to argue that the inscription might have been misread, but most experts believe Biran and Naveh got it right. The skeptics' claim that King David never existed is now hard to defend...
...revolted everyone, but we figured whites would worry most about becoming victims as they drove through the areas they'd escaped for the suburbs." Bush, thought the Bushies, was more likely than Clinton to be seen as capable of stopping such outcomes. "We're skittish about O.J. because we misread King," says the Dole aide. "So it's safest to basically say nothing...