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  • noun Plural form of mismanager.

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Examples

  • Otherwise, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four.... and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistenance by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2007

  • Otherwise, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four.... and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistenance by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers.

    SiCKO Part 3 Ellen Beth Gill 2007

  • The same mismanagers who assured the Challenger crew?

    More Ares Woes - NASA Watch 2009

  • That's one of the portfolio mismanagers quoted in Gabriel Sherman's New York article, The Wail of the 1 %, a story filled with quotes from clueless Wall Street types who, in trying to justify their gross self-overcompensation, sound as though they're auditioning to play caricatures of themselves in a Coen Brothers movie.

    Millionaires and the millionaires who love them 2009

  • Both incidents were criminal negligence oin the part of the mismanagers of NASA. common sense

    Shuttle Retirement Date Starts To Move To The Right - NASA Watch 2009

  • That's one of the portfolio mismanagers quoted in Gabriel Sherman's New York article, The Wail of the 1 %, a story filled with quotes from clueless Wall Street types who, in trying to justify their gross self-overcompensation, sound as though they're auditioning to play caricatures of themselves in a Coen Brothers movie.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • Only the chicken gun once again proved these mismanagers disguised as engineers wrong once again.

    More Ares Woes - NASA Watch 2009

  • Colonial governments were chronic mismanagers — in one four-year period, from 1744 to 1748, Massachusetts printed money so often that it suffered a stunning 50% devaluation of its notes.

    Just Like the Real Thing Joseph Sternberg 2011

  • Even after seeing the foam strike the wing, NASA mismanagers denied it could cause a problem and continued to do so until the chicken gun proved otherwise.

    Shuttle Retirement Date Starts To Move To The Right - NASA Watch 2009

  • The mismanagers of NASA will make more Challenger and Columbia type decisions leading to a major mishap.

    Astronaut Office Weighs In (Officially) On Ares/Orion/EELVs - NASA Watch 2008

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