Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...path-a good ten miles or so north of the jet's allotted position-it seemed likely that the jet had somehow flown beyond its orbiting area into the La Guardia approach. Why Pilot Sawyer did so-whether as a result of instrument failure or human error (one radio was out of commission, but he had a usable spare)-may never be known...
...costly blunder than the colonel's: he "bashes" a corporal (John Eraser) for walking out with his daughter (Susannah York). A court-martial is indicated. The colonel generously refuses to order it. To his amazement, the battalion interprets his generosity as weakness, and old Jock cannily abets the error. The train is laid that leads to a moral catastrophe in which both men are destroyed...
Many economists believe that the sample is too small to represent the real situation in unemployment and is subject to error. Samplers themselves concede that the range of their potential error is about 120,000 people. One trouble is that when the husband is laid off, the wife and often a son or daughter start searching for work to help out. Result: where only one has actually lost his job, three are registered as unemployed. Nonetheless, the statistics do show the national trend-and the trend is not encouraging...
Second, Melman said, is the possibility of human error, of "wrongly estimating the intentions of others." He cited a recent incident where radar signals bouncing off the moon were mistaken for incoming Russian missiles...
...stone was, as always, fully . But he the exact error which, and many of fellow speakers, had warned us launched a moral tirade against West Germans, when ridiculing national for and authoritarianism. I share concern, but I would like to point that identical arguments can be against the Soviet Union. In case is relevant. Instead, "willy-nilly" argument applies; we remain in a situation such that can carry out the objectionable implied by the existence of the tendencies...