She calls up the ghosts of Vietnam: "The failure to understand the complications of Iraqi political culture, with or without Hussein, threatens to spring the same trap of misperceptions that ensnared the United States in Vietnam," she writes.
Why do so many marketing people assume that truth is on their side, that their job is to use truth as a weapon to correct the misperceptions that exist in the mind of the prospect?
[ 10] Berzins outlined several commonly held misperceptions that contribute to the current cultural emphasis on weight control, including the incorrect beliefs that diets fail because of a lack of willpower and that being overweight is therefore the individual's fault.
Viet Dinh, a former Justice Department official who drafted the Patriot Act, said that Mr. Ashcroft's agenda would be "to correct the misperceptions that are out there and to disabuse the American public of the misinformation they've gotten".
Batchelor could well be attempting to liberate Asian Buddhism from the patchouli-scented misperceptions that have defined it in the Western mind since the 1960s.
Those relationships were complex, and "the sex in the package cannot be extricated from the stymieing cowardice or passivity, the misperceptions that diluted our passion".
To begin with, I think he'll take on directly some of the misperceptions that may have emerged as well as some of the differences that have emerged.
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