Word: misstepped
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...funds are managed and allocated. This year, according to Hassold, the organization received $15,000 from the office of the Extension School dean. Sams said the group spent nearly 80 percent of its funds within the first three months of the school year. “It was a misstep in leadership,” he said. De La Rosa also said the HESA budget is “not a lot of money,” and it “must be managed well throughout the year.” The current HESA president, Lorena Corona, said...
...most damning revelations, reported by The New York Times on April 21, revealed that federal regulations ought to have prohibited the killer, Seung-Hui Cho—who had previously been ordered by a judge to receive psychiatric treatment—from purchasing the two firearms, but a misstep on the part of Virginia authorities allowed him to make the purchase nonetheless. Suddenly, gun control was once again the focus of national debate. While no amount of foresight—or legislation—could ever completely prevent a tragedy like the one Virginia Tech witnessed last Monday, more effective...
...basketball, his equally egregious remarks were met with an unusual amount of public disdain and, in the end, dismissal. It remains impossible to predict which instances of insult will stop being benign to American audiences and begin to offend. Amid the furor over Imus’s own misstep, we must acknowledge that the onus of accountability extends well beyond the shoulders of one desiccated fake cowboy, brought up in a world where grime is money...
...system, though, isn't flawless and neither is Drexler. In the fall of 2005, J. Crew stocked heavy sweaters and classic styles, then watched the temperature rise and shoppers recede. Yet that misstep paled next to the one that ended his reign at Gap in the late 1990s, when Drexler overreacted to fast-fashion chains like H&M and took Gap trendy, alienating its core khaki customer. That call, exacerbated by an overaggressive store expansion, led to his forced resignation...
...Perfect Me” finds Deerhoof refueled with their unique brand of frantic, scattershot rocking. Soon after, however, the immediacy and unpredictability vanishes, and the songs become too comfortable—at least, by Deerhoof standards. “Friend Opportunity” is by no means a misstep. It’s an easily listenable, fun album, and the band’s signature nervy drums and bipolar blasts of sound can still be found in “Cast off Crown.” But with the expectations attached to a Deerhoof album, it’s hard...