Word: mistakenness
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...Bushies are softening their tone. But the smiling face the Bush administration is now showing Beijing shouldn't be mistaken for a policy shift; it's simply a change in tone. Because, in fact, the tough talk of the early months wasn't actually a policy - it was simply a posture. The basic areas of conflict between China and the U.S. remain. But so does the basic mutual self-interest that binds them together...
...according to the earth's magnetic field. "They are like some high-tech AWACS thing, with all their sensors," says Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, Calif. When they do attack a human, the weight of evidence now suggests, they have mistaken a person for a seal or some other prey, and most often will spit out human flesh after the first bite. The problem is, of course, that the one bite comes from jaws that are up to 3 ft. across and lined with hundreds of knives...
...News executive says ABC hasn't been able to find out whether the police got the same mistaken time line and, if so, whether it was corrected: "The police have never called [us] to check on this discrepancy...
...News executive says ABC hasn't been able to find out whether the police got the same mistaken time line and, if so, whether it was corrected: "The police have never called [us] to check on this discrepancy...
...simply did not exist. By and large, any subjects were fair game except those that bore on the reality of viewers' lives. The result was prime-time programming that was at once obvious and incomplete, like connect-the-dots pictures without the lines drawn in. Reduced to japes about mistaken identities and absentminded fathers losing their car keys, even situation comedies had few situations with which to make comedy...