Ten days ago, Bloomberg committed a spectacular blunder, falling for a fake news release and publishing a report that caused shares in Emulex, a California communications equipment company, to plunge 55 points in minutes.
The Pentagon has given the contract for the Cougar, a new armored truck, to a small South Carolina company that has never mass-produced vehicles and has, through a series of blunders, fallen behind schedule and produced defective vehicles that had to be recalled from the field.
Political analysts and opposition politicians have predicted that Ms. Bhutto's death will be one calamity too many for the president, after months of blunders and falling popularity since he moved in March to dismiss the Supreme Court's chief justice.
The word, after all, referred originally to a male bee, and bees and other insects rarely blunder into things or fall out of the sky.
Instead, he blundered with 23... Qe5? falling into 24 Nd6!
Still, it didn't make up for Cameron's blunder in the third, when he fell while backing up to catch Jose Offerman's bases-loaded fly ball.
The biggest blunder was early last year when sales began falling but Chrysler kept building vehicles without orders from dealers.
Even the stock of a company that has blundered is a buy if the price falls far enough.
Even a stock attached to a company that has blundered is a buy if the price falls enough.
I think my brother, less extrovert, less bombastic, more sensitive than me, had understood it better: my parents' grief at having to send their children away to school; the embarrassment on our behalf when we blundered into things or fell over; the knowledge of what we were missing.
