If the President had made miscalculations as basic as those made by Khrushchev, and then decided to pull back and save the peace of the world, he would, even if he escaped impeachment, lost the better part of his Presidential authority.
The story suggests that both Ehud Barak, who was then the Israeli prime minister, and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, made political and diplomatic miscalculations, as did President Bill Clinton and his aides.
The pale-green solid-wood tables are far too big and too many for the narrow room, a problem compounded by the bulky school-desk chairs, but there's something charming about the miscalculation, as if you've fallen through the looking glass.
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And that's the rest of the play: an extended demonstration of Sganarelle's miscalculation, as his kept woman, Isabelle, plots to escape and marry her admirer, Valère, played by Joe Delafield as a sort of dimwitted 17th-century metrosexual.
However, there might have been a miscalculation as to how much American journalists care about their boss paying out enormous redundancy cheques.
The governor's plans represent a startling turnaround from the mood that existed four years ago when the deregulation plan passed the Legislature unanimously on promises that market forces would bring power costs down -- a drastic miscalculation, as it turned out.
The scope of the miscalculation was clear as soon as a sunny, wiry, well-coiffed guy bounded off the elevator, stuck out his hand and said, "I'm Wayne".
It was still unclear on Tuesday whether the strike had been a complete miscalculation, or whether, as the military said, militants had been clustered in the area.
Author David O. Stewart calls the omission of a Bill of Rights in the original Constitution as "a political blunder of the first magnitude" while historian Jack N. Rakove calls it "the one serious miscalculation the framers made as they looked ahead to the struggle over ratification".
