Word: mistakenness
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...People are under the sense that 'If I just keep pushing, I'll get work done," Smigelski says. "It's kind of a mistaken notion...
Warren G. Harding was right in saying his friends were a bigger problem than his enemies, and Clinton is finding it to be true. Time and again the President provided big contributors with the sort of encouragement that when presented in business circles in the Far East, might be mistaken for official credentials. This created, in effect, a shadow diplomatic corps. For businessmen abroad, a picture with the President is worth a lot more than a thousand words--or dollars, for that matter. One supporter, Johnny Chung, whose $366,000 in donations qualified him as a "managing trustee...
...controllers in identifying unexpected aircraft, and will conduct a special review of military operations in the region in cooperation with the FAA. While U.S. military craft will continue to guard coastal air space from intruders, commercial airliners hopping from Miami to Manhattan should not fear that they will be mistaken for hostile military planes...
...court has acquitted the two men charged in the shooting death, agreeing with the defense's argument that a recorded conversation allegedly identifying Francesco Mesiano and Michele Iannello as the murderers was too chock full of regional dialect to serve as intelligible evidence. Police charged that the pair had mistaken the Greens' rental car for a robbery target, forced the car off the road and then fired into the vehicle, hitting young Nicholas in the brain. In the end, despite evidence linking Iannello to the car and the gun used in the shooting, even the prosecution favored leniency...
...were a decoration which truly had no religious overtones, why let it be so easily "mistaken" for a Christmas tree? Why not put it up in March? Why not use a willow tree? Why not make a big paper-mache book that students could decorate, instead of using a tree...