Word: error
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that time, the Meese paid $ 2875 in overdue federal tax payments and interest with the amended return, declaring a capital gain on the securities sales of $ 14606. McKay said, however, that Meese's accountants had made an error in calculating the basis of AT&T stock sold in 1985, under which $1000 in additional tax was due the government on an added $6000 in capital gains...
...appears on a radar screen; a captain who hesitates too long while trying to identify conclusively that radar-screen blip could lose his ship and the lives of all those aboard. That almost happened in May 1987 to the frigate Stark. It was hit by two missiles launched in error by an Iraqi plane. The ship was severely damaged, 37 crewmen were killed, and Captain Glenn Brindel was pressured into retirement for failing to take defensive action...
Vindicate. vt. To free from any question of error, dishonor, guilt, or negligence...
...probably not be released before July 15, but in making his announcement he followed the historic dictum of cagey generals engaged in losing battles: declare victory and leave the field. Whether the chief law-enforcement official of the U.S. is thereby "vindicated," that is, absolved from any question of error, dishonor or negligence, is still very much unresolved...
...that the medium isn't trying. Trial and Error, a sitcom starring Mexican-born Comic Paul Rodriguez as the grungy half of a mismatched pair of Hispanic roommates, debuted on CBS in March. But the show drew abysmal ratings and was canceled after just three weeks. Juarez, a drama about a Mexican- American lawman in El Paso, was intended to go on ABC's prime-time schedule last January. It was abandoned because of "creative differences" between the network and Writer-Producer Jeffrey Bloom (who had his name removed from the credits when one episode was finally aired in late...