What do pollsters and generals who get things wrong have in common?
And the security forces, often under-funded, get things wrong: in February, the Philippines announced with great fanfare the detention of a terrorist holding no fewer than 104 passports, only to discover that he was a travel agent collecting visas for Muslim pilgrims.
Rather than continuing down the start-finish straight, he drove a short distance in the wrong direction in order to get into the pits.
And some people are self-absorbed, lack personal goals, associate with the wrong crowd in the wrong places, or constantly blame others for failing to get ahead in life, rather than taking the right steps to escape from this context.
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How could Bloomberg and the New York Times, two of the largest and most well-respected publications in America, get it wrong?
Anything that creates alliances has got to be good even if we get the actual details wrong in the first place.
We know there are ways to wean people off high energy foods and to convert poor eating habits but we need to avoid any sense of social engineering in case we get this wrong.
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"We believe the comptroller's staff did him a disservice on some of the comments made in this report, which we think misrepresent or just totally get wrong some of the things that are in the budget, " Mr. Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, said in a conference call.
Financial subjects can be so complex that even those in the business sometimes get it wrong.
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They could drink too much or say the wrong thing or get in a fight.
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In the event I get it wrong, I always know my exit strategy and have calculated and owned the risk that I take.
According to a recent study by researchers at Auburn University in Alabama, patients in the hospital may get the wrong drug 20% of the time.
Third-Way propagandists are keen to contrast the right-wing assumption that governments almost always get things wrong with their own belief in the possibility, at least, of successful state intervention.
Ahead of the debate, Prime Minister David Cameron appeared to get his own policy on pensions wrong in an interview with BBC Radio 2 - suggesting the retirement age will move to 66 in 2018.
Now don't get me wrong, we believe strongly in the future of the U.S. economy, but it does not take real men of genius to grasp the fact that there is the opportunity for greater wealth creation abroad than in the U.S. over the next decade or so.
And that, if it was raining, or the wrong time of day, or if you were in the wrong neighborhood, you might just never get to eat?
You've probably heard a lot in recent weeks about what's wrong with the business of lobbying, the favors lobbyists get in return for big donations to congressional campaigns and committees.
But if insurers in the heat of competition get their bets wrong, thousands of octogenarians may find themselves outliving their means.
Don't get me wrong, we still hate each other in sports but not in life.
That wall is quite close so if you get it wrong you're going to go in there.
In a day and age where the ability to think quickly and react gracefully is critical to the success of workers, businesses, and nonprofits, it is important not to get distracted by the wrong perception of what is in the way of success.
When King asked Felt whether he felt he had done anything wrong in going outside approved channels to get information out, Felt was unequivocal.
If your waiter tries to memorize all the orders at all the tables, you might get the wrong meal, and if your server is in a hurry, thai dipping sauce might be spilled on your new silk blouse.
In these capacities, MacEachin appeared to colleagues to get things wrong with some regularity.
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Too often CMOs are overly wrapped up in the wrong ones, and the critical aspects get insufficient, or no attention.
So while we all might get lucky once in a while, most of the time we are wrong.
It is a common error for people to get confused about whether they have had tax deducted and fill in the wrong boxes.
" If anything, he said at a recent industry conference, "when you get all the data in one place, you discover what's wrong, where the bad data is.
But doctors believe the real figure could be far higher, since many people will have died in villages before they could get help or even say something was wrong.
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