Word: mistakenness
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jacket and goes off to apply for a job as a security guard at a five-star hotel. There he is mistaken for a journalist and whisked into a press banquet, one of many held in today's China to launch everything from[an error occurred while processing this directive] literacy campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark...
...week, Ken Lay's criminal conviction in the Enron scandal has been formally thrown out because of his death, and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skillling has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. But if anyone thinks that means the end of the Enron legal battles, they are as mistaken as the analysts who thought the once high-flying energy trader was a blue chip with a bright future...
Don’t be mistaken by the order here, this is definitely the bottom-tier matchup...
...longer demagogues who provoke our anger, but tragic figures that engender our sympathy. These characters’ actions are too destructive to be completely sympathetic, leading toward a more cynical interpretation. Humanity is inevitably going to produce human leaders who will provoke terrible consequences, usually due to their mistaken assumptions regarding the necessary actions to preserve their rule...
...denominational leaders into the Oval Office for private sessions with the President," Colson later wrote. "Of all the groups I dealt with, I found religious leaders the most naive about politics. Maybe that is because so many come from sheltered backgrounds, or perhaps it is the result of a mistaken perception of the demands of Christian charity ... Or, most worrisome of all, they may simply like to be around power...