Word: error
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...hope to have the results by Friday afternoon," Arrow said yesterday. "If this were done by hand, it could take four people three or four days to do it-and even then, the chances of error would be great...
...room during the demonstration and as having been an active participant in that demonstration. Those standing closest to the Dean were, obviously, both those most easily identified and those (in most cases) most actively involved in impeding his freedom of movement. In some instances, the Dean was in error and accordingly the Committee dismissed or modified the complaints. Not only did the Committee not single out SDS leaders, the majority of Committee members were unaware, in most cases, at the time of their deliberations, who was and who was not an SDS leader...
...participants. And most newspapers are usually able to endure the gripes because they have a healthy buffer zone: since only one or two per cent of their readers are ever involved in the stories, papers like the Times or the Globe have more room for both interpretation and error...
...district judge, 60% of his 23 civil rights decisions were reversed by the Fifth Circuit Court. In 1963, he dismissed a complaint on behalf of blacks who were trying to attend a Tallahassee theater; the Circuit Court reversed his ruling with the biting comment, "These orders are clearly in error...
Dedicated Telephoneticist. There is, of course, a margin of error connected with the game, specifically in the possible confusion between 1's and 7's, O's and O's. Dialing a wrong telephone name may also bring on an operator asking: "What number did you dial, please?" Instead of trying to explain, it is usually far easier to hang up and call again. None of this deters a dedicated telephoneticist like Los Angeles Mathematician Angela Dunn, who has created words out of most of her friends' numbers. A pharmacist and his wife for whom...