Word: blundering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tolerable figure. It would cost more to keep a bear in the zoo. A citizen determined to be grumpy might reflect that while the last recorded human fatality from a bear attack in New Hampshire was in the 1700s, the last recorded human death from a hunter's blunder was last week...
NATION: Did the U.S. fumble its best chance to topple Noriega -- or avoid an ill-planned blunder...
...perhaps the most biased call ever heard on a broadcast, but since it was Caray who committed the blunder, no one really paid attention...
...L.D.P. repeatedly demonstrated just how out of touch it had become. One L.D.P. legislator suggested that the consumption tax would be less painful if it were an even 4% instead of 3%. Another party member said farmers were only intelligent enough to do manual work. Credit for the greatest blunder, however, went to Agriculture Minister Hisao Horinouchi, who said, "It is wrong for women to come to the forefront of politics." Pausing just long enough to take one foot out of his mouth and insert the other, Horinouchi then attacked Doi, the popular Socialist leader. "British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...immediate response. But U.S. critics promptly charged that the Bush Administration was avoiding tough questions, like whether to scrap the Star Wars antimissile system, and deliberately delaying a START agreement. The Administration, warned Senator Joseph Biden, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, may have committed a "major blunder...