If the Republicans believe that gridlock and an excessive display of partisanship is in their interest, that is a fundamental miscalculation of the American people.

The confusion seems to arise from several more fundamental miscalculations.

His pollster, Paul Maslin, asserts that this notion was based on a fundamental miscalculation about the dynamics of 1988.

According to the Navy, a fundamental miscalculation may have caused the failure of the Trident 2, its biggest nuclear missile, in two of its three sea tests.

Some Palestinians are appalled by what they view as Arafat's fundamental miscalculations as he finds himself confronted by these new American and Israeli intentions.

So for him to drop out, this is a fundamental miscalculation.

Others looked for explanations to fundamental miscalculations born of the Soviets' profound ignorance of the world they had sought to join.

It was a fundamental miscalculation.

But "it represents a fundamental miscalculation on the part of the North Koreans," said a senior Defense Department official.

"If that's the union's view, it's a fundamental miscalculation," Bettman said.