"His bad decisions and miscalculations in Iraq will cost the American people for decades to come and weakened our hand in the war on terror".
That assessment, said Patrick Smith, the editor of a London-based newsletter, Africa Confidential, has spread a "geopolitical patina" over the "very, very local" mistakes and miscalculations in Mali and elsewhere.
The impression of recovery — the impression that a President was bending the old rules and, drawing upon his own courage and flamboyance in adversity and illness, stirring things up on behalf of the down-and-out — mattered more than any miscalculations in the moot mathematics of economics.
And whether the war was necessary or not, due to miscalculations in the West and in Belgrade, it did help bring about the fall of Mr. Milosevic, said Milan Bozic, a professor and politician, because it broke his relationship with the West, which finally had no more use for him.
Osborne has made bad political miscalculations in the past and this could be another.
These included the incorrect implementation of the stopping rule for Debrisoft® and a miscalculation in the unit costs of a district nurse visit at home.
Government miscalculations in the late 1990s about the willingness of private industry to research and build supercomputers have left the U.S. lagging behind the Japanese in this area and struggling to meet urgent national interests.
The president's pessimism appeared to be an acknowledgment that the White House had made significant miscalculations in the spending fight.
Rolls-Royce management made several miscalculations in the process, including a vast underestimation of the engine's development costs, which led the company to bankruptcy in February 1971.
A preliminary decision this month requiring the company to cut rates was changed because of miscalculations in the preliminary ruling, the utility control department said.
