Word: mistakenness
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...overall reason that the staff supports unions is that it identifies their self-interest with its own. This is a mistaken and hypocritical calculation, for if the unions are, by the staff's minds, allowed to demand increased wages or better conditions at the expense of students, why should not students favor lower or stagnant wages at the expense of unions...
...staff's knee-jerk reaction to the uncovering of severe racism at Texaco wrongly calls for the University to divest should Harvard not be able to clear the oil company of its tarnished name. In so doing, a mistaken question is posed: The issue is not whether Texaco's executives have institutionalized racism there (they have), but how Harvard can most effectively combat that racism...
...some people, one of the bewildering aspects of the modern condition is that all sorts of things no longer mean what they once did. A smile is not always just a smile; a pat on the back may be mistaken for more than encouragement. And at the center of the sexual harassment scandal sweeping Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, members of the 143rd Ordnance Battalion--whose motto is "Professionals in Gear"--may want to consider changing their mascot from the acronymic PIG to a creature a bit less loaded with symbolism...
Although conspicuous in their tuxedos, the singers suffered a case of mistaken identity the last time they sang for the Celtics...
...royal lineages of the two presidential candidates (Oct. 28). The story explained that, according to Burke's Peerage, President Clinton was more likely to win the election than Senator Dole because Clinton had more royal blood in him. Harold Brooks-Baker, the editor at Burke's, is completely mistaken about this...