Word: misreads
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...generation lived in the afterglow of the New Deal. We misread Keynes and thought that borrowing, because it worked in the thirties and forties, could continue forever. Debt is economic cocaine; it is very hard to stop borrowing once you started. Please understand, I would have been voted out of office if I would have raised taxes or cut spending, so I borrowed your future earnings. It was the perfect fraud...
Saddam decided to take advantage of the deepening split in the council, moving to weaken the inspection team by barring Americans from it. But he "misread the importance of the split," said a senior U.N. official. Though divided on whether to continue sanctions, the Security Council members weren't about to let Saddam dictate who could be on their inspection team. France, Russia and China joined the U.S. in a Security Council statement threatening Iraq with "serious consequences" if it expelled the Americans. "Saddam Hussein has shot himself in the foot again," said State Department spokesman James Rubin...
Girls who suffer from the rare genetic disorder known as Turner's syndrome are a little shorter than average, have a thicker neck and usually can't have children. Otherwise, there's nothing especially striking about them--except that often they're socially inept. They butt into conversations. They misread facial expressions, tones of voice, body language. They're insensitive to others' feelings...
Despite the warnings, however, Davis says that students continue to misread the Guide--for instance, many falsely assume that because one-third of respondants praised the textbook, two-thirds did not like it. As the introduction would explain, the two-thirds likely had no opinion...
...blunt corporate instrument who is used to this sort of stuff. He has frequently antagonized the pilots over the years and once even mocked a pilot-commissioned study of the company, saying, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." But he may also have misread apa's intent. Crandall thought he had a deal last fall, but a hard-line union contingent, working through the Internet, mobilized membership to reject a contract offer blessed by the union's executive committee...