Republican politicians say the contracts were a grave miscalculation, because they locked in high prices just as new electricity supplies were leading to lower prices in daily trading.
We alone were reaping the rewards of some Parks Department architects' error, a grave miscalculation of how high a given tennis ball hit at such-and-such miles an hour could go, with the wind gusts in some such direction, and the phase of the moon on a particular Wednesday in autumn in Brooklyn.
Not only is this an affront to everything capitalism stands for, it is a grave miscalculation.
"My message to Moscow is that if anyone thinks they can do these things without serious long-term consequences they are making a grave miscalculation".
In short, House Republicans are making a grave miscalculation on Social Security.
At a convention that featured mothers who lost children during deadly encounters with police, showcasing Mayor Rahm Emanuel would have been a grave miscalculation.
It would be the gravest miscalculation since, perhaps, a similar one many millions of years ago that wiped out ancient dinosaur astronomers.
The friction between Mr. Kennedy's uncertain feel for politics and his instinctive command of governance led to his gravest miscalculation, his ill-executed attempt to unseat his party's incumbent president, Jimmy Carter, in the 1980 primaries.
"In making this latest, desperate attack, it seems that Mr. Hevesi is trying to compensate for his own track record of grave budget miscalculations, which would have forced the city to cut thousands of cops, firefighters, and teachers," said Mattis Goldman, Mr. Vallone's press secretary.
A first task, once talks do get going, will be to convince North Korea of how grave a miscalculation that would be.
