overcorrection

It was just like all the others: the blind-side approach, the perfect angle, the perfect hit just beyond the left rear quarter panel, the satisfaction of the thump as metal hit metal at speed, possibly a flash of horror as the doomed driver looked back, even as, predictably, he overcorrected as he felt control vanish and the side of the road beckon, not realizing that the overcorrection was the killer.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

It was just like all the others: the blind-side approach, the perfect angle, the perfect hit just beyond the left rear quarter panel, the satisfaction of the thump as metal hit metal at speed, possibly a flash of horror as the doomed driver looked back, even as, predictably, he overcorrected as he felt control vanish and the side of the road beckon, not realizing that the overcorrection was the killer.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

It was just like all the others: the blind-side approach, the perfect angle, the perfect hit just beyond the left rear quarter panel, the satisfaction of the thump as metal hit metal at speed, possibly a flash of horror as the doomed driver looked back, even as, predictably, he overcorrected as he felt control vanish and the side of the road beckon, not realizing that the overcorrection was the killer.

A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

The DOWs down 2.5% (almost 300 pts) as we speak, though it's coming back a bit (I said a half-hour ago this was an overcorrection -- shoulda put in a call option!)

Jared Bernstein: What the Heck Is Going on With the Stock Market? Jared Bernstein 2011

The DOWs down 2.5% (almost 300 pts) as we speak, though it's coming back a bit (I said a half-hour ago this was an overcorrection -- shoulda put in a call option!)

Jared Bernstein: What the Heck Is Going on With the Stock Market? Jared Bernstein 2011

Personally, I think this is an overcorrection because “Jim and me” no longer sounds correct, a side-effect of correcting “me” used as subject.

You and myself « Motivated Grammar 2009

Even before Iraq, however, the agency's intelligence lapses in the 1990s led to a "culture of failure ... a fatal cycle of error, criticism, overcorrection, distraction and politicization that undermined the quality and quantity of information provided to decision-makers who compounded these failing with major misjudgments of their own," according to John Diamond, a former congressional staffer and author of "The CIA and the Culture of Failure."

CIA's Mideast Surprise Recalls History Of Intelligence Failures Marcus Baram 2011

The DOWs down 2.5% (almost 300 pts) as we speak, though it's coming back a bit (I said a half-hour ago this was an overcorrection -- shoulda put in a call option!)

Jared Bernstein: What the Heck Is Going on With the Stock Market? Jared Bernstein 2011

Even before Iraq, however, the agency's intelligence lapses in the 1990s led to a "culture of failure ... a fatal cycle of error, criticism, overcorrection, distraction and politicization that undermined the quality and quantity of information provided to decision-makers who compounded these failing with major misjudgments of their own," according to John Diamond, a former congressional staffer and author of "The CIA and the Culture of Failure."

CIA's Mideast Surprise Recalls History Of Intelligence Failures Marcus Baram 2011

At best, you might be able to argue that they sort of orbit around each other in multi-decadal cycles of correction and overcorrection — but that leaves plenty of room for people to point out how they might be badly out of whack at any given point in time. jefft452 Says:

Matthew Yglesias » The Wage Stagnation Debate 2010