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...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...
...random telephone poll revealed that a another third opposed divestment, whereas in the UC referendum taken in dining halls only about a sixth said they opposed it. This discrepancy says something about the two different polling methods. Clearly person-to-person methods, whether UC referenda or SASC petitions, misread campus opinion by discouraging divestment opponents from airing their point of view...
...agree, and said in the article, that there are in fact some athletes at Harvard who confirm the scholar-athlete stereotype. I refuse to be misread as lumping all athletes together in the negative stereotype...