Word: blundered
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...pass, which would have been either defender’s second interception of the day, grazed off of Raftery’s fingers. The Tigers took advantage of the blunder to drive down the field and convert on a 30-yard field goal to cut the lead to two touchdowns...
...devastating indictment of the way Sabena was run. It's the tale of a chronically undercapitalized and uncompetitive company driven to ruin by a flawed expansion policy and an ill-fated alliance with Swissair. And throughout, a passive and heavily politicized board of directors signed off on one strategic blunder after another. Langendries says he doesn't want to pre-empt the commission's official findings, which are due by the end of the year, but one conclusion is indisputable. "There were bizarre goings-on everywhere at Sabena," he says, "and not just with the Airbus." Bizarre...
...Vladimir Kramnik made the worst blunder of his career and arguably the biggest error ever made by a world chess champion. He lost a knight in a one-move combination on the thirty-fourth move and resigned immediately. It was Deep Fritz's first victory. Although the silicon beast still trails in the eight-game match two games to three, the momentum is now clearly in its favor. Kramnik's play was shaky in the previous game, and here it was unrecognizable. "He had a total hallucination," commented William Paschall, an international master in Massachusetts. "There is just no other...
...After the game, a dejected Kramnik did his best to appear unfazed. "I do not blunder often," he told the spectators. "It's not a big problem. I just need to be more concentrated. Such things can happen any time." He conceded that he was tired. "We will go back to the hotel," he said, "and reconsider our approach...
Afghan officials in Kunduz interviewed by Time say the U.S. committed another major blunder in late November, when American commanders, according to these sources, agreed to allow Pakistan to airlift a "limited number" of Pakistani intelligence agents out of Afghanistan. Witnesses say that when the transport planes and helicopters arrived in Kunduz, hundreds of Taliban and foreign al-Qaeda fighters jostled for space on the flights. Locals believe that as many as 1,000 boarded the flights to Pakistan; according to Kunduz's deputy governor, Saeed Abra, the passengers included several al-Qaeda leaders and the staff and families...