Word: error
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hospital officials insist that the misadministered dose was simply human error. They are seeking to have a $14,000 fine reduced or even dismissed. Lane, whose chances of developing cancer could increase more than 4% every year, is fearful about the future. "What if my health insurance gets canceled?" she asks. "What about ((my children's)) college? It looks like I'm not going to be here for them...
...ringing from as much as 20 seconds to as little as four seconds. But the refinement inadvertently made the system more prone to breakdowns. Last week's glitch spread rapidly among the 114 computers in AT&T's network in part because they all contained the same programming error...
Unfortunately, the testimony cited by the learned Justice and his Chief was in error, and this error has been allowed to skew the entire debate on the subject. There is no theory of life's origin in Darwin's work. True to his title, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin confined himself to describing the process by which new species, including our own, have evolved from the old. In a letter to American botanist Asa Gray, he dismissed all theological pretensions on his part with the words: "A dog might as well speculate...
...have a very small margin for error," Roby said. "We're small. We don't have a lot of depth...