Murphy's Law and the madness of the mullahs will play as much a role in the ultimate success or miscalculation of an Israeli strike as will the skill of the Israeli pilots and the power of their planning and ordnance.
Instead, the typical cheque has been for $79,000, a miscalculation of about a third.Federal officials have been quick to blame Louisiana for the cash shortage.
In other words, two perfectly skilled teams competing on a level playing field will produce scoring events by chance alone, e.g., a slight miscalculation of velocity, a fumbled pass, shifting environmental variables like wind or heat, etc.
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.
Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about battles over Colorado's waterways included a miscalculation of how much water a court recently permitted the city of Golden to divert for recreational use in its Clear Creek Whitewater Park.
And so perhaps in another 52 years the network executives at ABC will also admit to a gross miscalculation of judgment by inviting a blatantly, unavoidably racist woman onto their ratings-topping program Dancing With The Stars.
To a great extent, Blair's demise was the result of a miscalculation of the staying power and resolve of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
It can lead filers to inadvertently deduct the same expenses twice, leading to a miscalculation of the tax owed and an underpayment of hundreds of dollars on the typical return.
