In businesses with high turnover and low profit margins, a miscalculation of selling prices can have a big effect on a firm's annual profits. |
Whatever lies behind the timing of this initiative, the need to deploy an entire battalion smacks of military miscalculation. |
Now our guys are dying everyday because of a blithering miscalculation on your part. |
Only in this manner can we hope to reduce the risks of adventurism and miscalculation in a world that retains many thousands of nuclear weapons. |
American policy was thus based on a disastrous miscalculation, which came home to roost at Pearl Harbor. |
For his part, Eisenhower feared a surprise attack and war by miscalculation. |