Word: misstep
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...court this week, Schwarzenegger's butt kicking has hardly improved his image. According to a recent Gallup poll, nurses are more popular than he is. "The nurses care about patient safety," says state senator Sheila Kuehl, author of the ratio law. "The Governor insulted them. It was a big misstep...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The Harvard men’s basketball team entered Providence Friday night knowing it could not afford a misstep, and exited Pizzatola Sports Center with its biggest league road win in six years—a 64-53 victory over Brown...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The Harvard men’s basketball team entered Providence on Friday night knowing it could not afford a misstep and exited Pizzatola Sports Center with its biggest league road win in six years—a 64-53 victory over Brown...
...side, bad guys on the other. They advance and clash, executing kung-furious feats of acrobatic derring-do. It's like a Hong Kong action film, but every take has to be perfect. It's being done live, in a theater at Las Vegas' MGM Grand, so any misstep could injure a performer and kill the flow of the drama. Moreover, the battlefield is a large platform that has been tilted 80°, a nearly vertical position. That gives the audience a unique, God's-eye view of the action, but it's hell for the performers, who must fight...
While Harvard won’t be changing what has proved to be a very successful strategy, blueliners will certainly be conscious of the greater distance they need to cover and the larger seams any misstep will leave open to an opponent’s attack. And that, in turn, will tweak the split-second calculation that precedes riskier defensive efforts...