McDonald's reinvention of the Hamburglar was seemingly meant as a play for refreshed cultural relevance, but deeply mixed reactions to the new beef thief raise the prospect that the corporation has miscalculated.
But as I turned on to PM on Thursday afternoon it turned out I had miscalculated.
There is little doubt that the IMF and EC miscalculated when they forced Greece into a second bailout in 2012 that repaid private lenders with EU and IMF funds.
We discuss the current crisis in British universities, which having imposed fees now find that they are short of cash because the government miscalculated what students would have to pay and is now unable to ensure that the loans handed out to cover the fees will ever be repaid.
During the surveillance battle, McConnell miscalculated the lengths to which his colleague from Kentucky, Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul, would go to block any renewal of the Patriot Act without reforms.
Izvolski had drastically miscalculated: he had handed Bosnia-Herzegovina to Austria but got nothing in return.
If so, they miscalculated.
It may have miscalculated on May 1st, since it is now the federal authorities' number-one target.
But Russia has also miscalculated by marching its troops into Georgia proper.
The prime minister, who heads a Conservative minority government, clearly reckoned that giving legislators an extra winter break, during which they might visit the Winter Olympics (in Vancouver between February 12th and 28th), would not bother Canadians much.He may have miscalculated.
The election left the party in ruins; its defeated prime minister and leader, Alain Juppé, reviled; its founder and spiritual leader, President Jacques Chirac (who had miscalculated by calling the snap election), hugely discredited.
