Minor simplifications are not worth a disaster; harmonisation is a misguided goal if it means doing things wrong everywhere.
Many supply-siders believe that balancing the budget is a misguided goal, except to the extent that it shrinks government, which is a somewhat different goal.
His misguided goal was to entice the elderly to leave the much-loved social insurance program and move into a market-oriented form of Medicare.
Washingtons misguided goal, if you listen closely, seems to be turning these giant banks into public utilities to jumpstart lending under political duress.
In that scenario, therapeutically manipulating only one misregulated conductance will fail to sustainably reverse hyperexcitability if a deranged homeostatic control mechanism can fall back on other conductances to achieve its misguided goal.
According to the authors, highly specific goals may cause workers to sacrifice safety for speed as in the case of the Ford Pinto or pursue misguided end results, as was the case at Enron.
These crises, and their subsequent laments over missed goals, misguided motivations, woulda-shoulda-couldas, strike like terrifyingly accurate heat-seeking missiles when the sun has set on the time for action.
"At every step, we were told our goals were misguided or too ambitious, that we would crush jobs and explode deficits," the President said.
At every step, we were told our goals were misguided or too ambitious; that we would crush jobs and explode deficits.
Some dismiss that goal as misguided idealism.
