But it may also be because many of China's problems are so tough to fix, particularly for a Communist Party that is, at heart, cautious and careful, concerned about making any missteps, about the unintended consequences of any changes it might make, and beholden to many of its own vested interests.
Mitt Romney's gigantic misstep about the 47percentt of Americans he depicts as freeloaders has turned a grumble of discontent into an uproar.
You can also bring cost efficiency to the process by avoiding the missteps brought about by traditional, entrenched thinking.
The Deal Professor column on Wednesday, about missteps by the Yahoo board, referred incorrectly to the position of a Yahoo shareholder, the hedge fund Third Point Management, on the company's stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.
There are revealing complaints about missteps at the F.B.I. under Louis J. Freeh's watch, but also dozens of pointless digressions about matters like zombies in Haiti and ruins in Pompeii.
Ms. Rowley, a former F.B.I. agent who testified before the Senate about missteps in the agency's investigation of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, said, "We talked about prior examples of great people in history that had themselves been under this kind of pressure, and he's remarkably centered".
Another of the whistle-blowers, Coleen Rowley, a former F.B.I. agent who testified before the Senate about missteps in the agency's investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said, "We talked about prior examples of great people in history that had themselves been under this kind of pressure, and he's remarkably centered".
But early yesterday, as the morning traffic roared by below, Mr. Jara, 25, took a fatal misstep about 15 stories above the ground while working on an ornate office building at 114 Fifth Avenue near Union Square.
Mr. Paterson later became mired in a series of scandals and missteps, raising questions about the wisdom of Mr. Spitzer's selection.
[C1.] General Motors said it sharply reduced its loss during the first quarter -- a breakthrough for a company battered by accounting missteps and doubts about the future of its chief executive and of the automaker itself.
Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington and a member of the Veterans Affairs Committeee, said Mr. Shinseki has been pleasantly open about missteps, as when the administration proposed passing on some health care costs to veterans.
