Word: mistakenness
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...simply self-appointed individuals, my judgment is that their views will tend to become less influential over a period of time than if they have been appointed to the task, by the President, on the basis of an informal agreement between the two institutions. However, my judgment may be mistaken. If M.I.T. decides to give full weight to the opinions of individual Harvard members who sit on a Policy Board which it has established unilaterally, the results could be identical to those obtained by having the Harvard members appointed by Mr. Pusey in accord with an inter-institutional understanding...
...Brooks subcommittee and the Committee on Research Policy who argued vigorously for appointment of Policy Board members by the President: I believe it to be the wiser choice and I will regret a decision against it-while hoping, in such an event, that my judgment will prove to be mistaken...
...Lalich began handing out GET WITH IT buttons, and it was all very clear that he still thinks that it is 1968 all over again. It isn't, and Lalich was sadly mistaken if he thinks that all that is missing is a little old school spirit...
Unlike the characters, the audience is let in on the mistaken identity aspects of the plot from the beginning-and that's the point. Wilder wants us to share with him his contemptuous laughter for all affairs human...
...Defense Department had had accurate means of determining how the North Vietnamese people and the Viet Cong would react to an American troop build-up, Deutsch said, the Pentagon could have predicted the trend toward escalation and avoided it. Instead, Washington based its policy on the mistaken idea that large numbers of guerillas would desert rather than face a long war, be added. In that instance, Deutsch explained, the Pentagon could have furthered the interests of peace through the application of social science research...