Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complicated way in which Americans have assessed the meaning of victory has led to some confusion about their feelings. The outpouring of relief that erupted when the fighting ended, for example, was first mistaken for euphoria and is now at times wrongly taken for chest-pounding superpatriotism. In fact, there were many reasons for the mood of celebration, and most of them are laudable...
Under the microscope of the General Accounting Office, the University has admitted to making $500,00 of mistaken or questionable billings to the government for overhead on research at the Medical School. Now, the federal 'indirect cost' inquiry has engulfed nearly 300 schools...
...shouldn't go to a movie just because a director tried hard. There are plenty of independent films whose ambitions point only toward conventional storytelling. It happens that there are four new movies aiming higher, farther, stranger. And they won't be mistaken for Home Alone or even The Long Walk Home. Call them off-Hollywood movies, because they have sworn off Hollywood...
...York City has also shifted strategies. In the mid-1980s, under the administration of former Mayor Ed Koch, a single positive toxicology report was enough for authorities to take a newborn from its mother. But a series of cases of mistaken charges of child abuse helped lead to a change of policy under Mayor David Dinkins. In one notorious example, Brooklyn bank clerk Judith Adams lost custody of her child for nearly two months after the medication that doctors gave her during a caesarean section resulted in a false-positive drug test. "Instead of breast feeding my baby...
...country. Recently, though, as Bernander drove north of Sulaymaniyah to inspect the treatment of Kurdish refugees there, gunmen ambushed the five-car convoy. They hit three cars with gunfire, but the occupants miraculously suffered only a few glass splinters. The assailants, it turned out, were Kurdish guerrillas who had mistaken the U.N. delegates for Iraqi government officials. After appropriating one of the vehicles, the guerrillas apologized for shooting and sent the envoys on their...