Where lock-in is a factor, it is wrong to suppose that consumers and producers will blunder on as if it were not.
This was an insensitive blunder on my part, since I knew that the government limits members of the ethnic Han majority to have only one child.
With the waiver of the Jackson-Vanik amendment yesterday afternoon, the Bush administration made a strategic blunder on a par with its untimely wooing of Saddam Hussein earlier this year.
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"The evidence we were shown was extremely powerful and it leads us to conclude that this was a very serious blunder on the part of the United States, " said our correspondent.
Some see the leak about the ECB withdrawing funding from those banks as a giant blunder on a day when the president of the ECB, Mario Draghi, said in support of Greece only that the ECB had a "strong preference" for It staying in the euro.
The so-called London Whale blunder weighed on shares heavily in the spring and summer, but with the year winding down the stock was just a few bucks shy of its 2012 highs.
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Turner sideline reporter Craig Sager was broadcasting a 1978 Kansas City Royals spring-training game for a local station, he said, when the 5-foot-5 shortstop Freddie Patek hit "the you-know-what" out of the ball, at least according to Sager in the booth. (Except "you-know-what" was you know what.) Not a single mention of Sager's blunder exists on the Internet today.
North Korea's state news agency KCNA made no mention of the blunder in its report on Thursday of the team's 2-0 victory over Colombia.
Mr Cameron earlier played down the flag blunder, which happened on the first day of sporting action, and delayed the women's football match between North Korea and Colombia at Glasgow's Hampden Park by about an hour.
Earlier Wayne Rooney capitalised on a shocking blunder to bring United level after Porto produced an early warning of their intentions.
EU's most recent rejection of Turkey's candidature, in 1997, when the current 12 other applicants were accepted, was a serious blunder readily blamed in retrospect on the Greeks.
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The killing of Mr Hariri exactly a year ago was a massive blunder, leading to a revolution on the streets of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, that ended up with the complete withdrawal, last summer, of regular Syrian forces.
Lord Hoffmann's blunder has cast a harsh light on Britain's highest court, and raised serious doubts about whether the Law Lords will be ready to deal with the wave of controversial cases expected after the Human Rights Act comes into force, probably next year.
On the surface, the blunder was failing to square the retail deal with a coalition ally, the Trinamul Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, a notoriously unreliable ally.
Not only is Microsoft losing out on cash thanks to this blunder, but it also puts PC owners at risk from unscrupulous PCC sellers who might try to palm off an illegal copy of Windows onto users.
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The BBC's correspondent in Afghanistan Damian Grammaticas said the attack on the wedding party in the central province of Uruzgan on 1 July was a major blunder by US forces.
But it does raise the question of whether Mr Obama's decision to spend so much of his political capital on health care was a monumental strategic blunder.
The biggest blunder most presenters make is not humiliating themselves or freezing up on stage.
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" In the past, he said, "those who intervened in Afghanistan and tried to plot their own preferred leaders on Afghanistan paid a very high price for that blunder.
The trader himself, Nick Leeson, was a soft-hearted sap who started on the road to perdition to cover up a blunder by a junior colleague, and appeared to think he was dealing in cappuccino options.
Planes can end up at wrong spots on the tarmac, sometimes even causing confused pilots at the controls to blunder into the path of speeding aircraft in poor visibility.
As Neflix management scrambled to recover from the blunder, other services, like Amazon and Hulu, gained strength, putting even more pressure on Netflix.
The company recently made headlines when shoppers on one of its Christmas trips to France were taken to Belgium after a sat-nav blunder diverted their coach off course.
The fundamental blunder in all of these studies and reports is that the 1986 tax reform radically changed what is reported on income tax returns, so income before is not comparable to income after.
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Putting a muzzle and straitjacket on her and then scripting her so tightly that she came across as foolish was a "colossal blunder, " according to one of Palin's closest aides.
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