Word: error
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Much of the knowledge I have accumulated thus far would be difficult to duplicate in classroom situations. It is largely a process of trial and error. Fortunately I seem to possess talent in the field of business, so the errors I make are fewer and fewer all the time and, more importantly, less severe." Spitz said, "Certainly some coursework would have been helpful and I regret not taking advantage of business classes offered at Indiana...
...prison. Whether they admit or not, this choice is racist because, to The Crimson, the archetypal prisoner is a Black person. Furthermore, their subsequent trivialization of our anger added insult to injury. We were accused once again of "oversensitivity" and were asked to write if off as an unintentional error...
Isolated in the White House, Carter seems all too prone to error...
...President Carter issued an astounding statement. The U.S. vote in favor of the resolution, which demanded that Israel both stop its practice of placing new settlements in the Arab lands it has occupied since 1967 and dismantle nearly 100 already in existence, had been a mistake. Carter blamed the error on a "failure to communicate ... clearly." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, poker-faced, said curtly: "I take full responsibility for what happened...
...what had happened? How could the skilled diplomatic bureaucracy of a superpower mull over a highly sensitive document for nearly a month, scrutinizing each word, and then cast its vote in error? Because of a communications gap between Washington and its U.N. Ambassador in New York? Or between the President and his Secretary of State? Carter's explanation was not only lame but incredible. With one swift stroke, he had destroyed the growing notion, so carefully cultivated in this election year, of acting calmly and shrewdly on foreign policy matters...