Then in what was widely seen as a public relations miscalculation, Hawaii Superferry slashed prices to $5 and started service two days early.
It examines episodes like the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 (and others almost wholly unknown to the public), when miscalculation, misinformation, or misunderstanding brought us to the brink of a civilization-ending nuclear war.
Those institutions can be required to finance their operations using substantially more equity, thereby changing their incentives and buffering themselves and the public against their miscalculations.
Not only is it morally reprehensible to restrict or deny life-saving drugs to those who need them (talk about death panels), it is a colossal miscalculation of public health policy, not to mention fiscally irresponsible.
According to Mason, the speech was a miscalculation which made the public, perhaps already sceptical of his commitment to Trinidad after so many years away, question his fitness for a ministerial role, a view increasingly held by commentators.
Investors, many of whom recently bought shares in Interbrew's initial public offering, punished the company for that miscalculation by shaving 4 billion euros ($3.8 billion) in market capitalization off the company.
The fact that Romney thinks otherwise suggests that underneath his public cynicism lurks something more troubling: A deep miscalculation about which votes he needs to win and how.
Representative Gene Taylor, a conservative Mississippi Democrat and opponent of the health plan, said its nearly $1 trillion cost and the lack of widespread public enthusiasm for it adds up to a political miscalculation.
The very public nature of the gambit appears to have been a miscalculation.
Which is a huge miscalculation when you're trying to win the public's trust for the sharing of their most sensitive personal data.
