Word: mistakenness
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...think BAD ideas are merely a product of public ignorance and demented profit seeking, you are sadly mistaken. We have a number of inanenotions circulating around Harvard under the pretense of rationality...
...most elections Bush's margin would be considered a comfortable victory. But in New Hampshire the early overestimates of Buchanan's strength created the mistaken impression that he had come close to scoring an upset, an impression that lingered after the results became known...
Kelly also said that although the officersinvolved had been mistaken in not tracking downwitnesses and collecting suspect information atthe scene, they were not guilty of misconduct...
...Gallo wars, which broke out in 1960 and resulted in 13 murders. In 1972 Joseph Gallo was sloppily killed by fellow Colombos in Umbertos, a crowded clam house in Manhattan's Little Italy. Several months later, his avengers entered another restaurant, the Neopolitan Noodle, and, in a case of mistaken identity, opened fire on four kosher-meat dealers out for a night on the town. Two were killed...
...exodus of Vietnamese boat people that began in 1975 brought a surge in tales of POW sightings, some of them apparently inspired by the mistaken belief that anyone offering such stories to immigration officials would be put on a quick path to the U.S. For similar reasons, a macabre trade in bones said to be the skeletons of American servicemen became a growth industry in Vietnam: the going price for a box of purported remains ranges from $1,000 to $5,000. Most of them turn out to be animal bones or the skeletons of Vietnamese...