Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since his disclosures, Fitzgerald -who was nominated by the Air Force in 1967 for a Distinguished Service Award-has labored in a kind of Pentagon purgatory. His civil service status, routinely given any appointee at his level after three years of service, was revoked because of "a computer error." He says that his mail is being opened. One letter even bore the initials and stamp of the "action officer" who had opened it. He still toils quietly in the same windowless, fifth-floor office. Instead of monitoring the costs of the multibillion-dollar...
...Wilfrid Sheed rarely nods (a fact that enables him to keep a remarkably long ash on his cigars), and I was therefore astonished to encounter a gross historical error in his essay on the Irish [June 20]. He asserts that the small Irish farmer could not even think about sex after 1662. What nonsense! The fact is that my great-grandfather Andrew Bowen, who was born in 1732, was a small Irish farmer (three inches taller than Keats) and thought about sex all the time. He thought about it with the kine in the byre, with the peat...
...University of California's White Mountain Research Station, atop a 12,500-ft. peak near Yosemite National Park, and pointed them in opposite directions. For 23 days, the antennas swept different quadrants of the skies; periodically they were reversed to reduce the risk of built-in electronic error. By comparing the slight variations in readings, Conklin was able to calculate the earth's velocity toward the distant sea of radiation...
...second rent control ordinance, this one proposed by the Cambridge Rent Control referendum, has been rewritten after the group discovered an error in their original ordinance, The referendum group is now beginning anew to get the signatures needed to put its proposed ordinance on the City's November ballot...
...this year, the Federal Reserve has allowed the U.S. money supply to grow at an annual rate of less than 2%. That is sharply below the inflationary 11% growth allowed in the second half of 1968, when the board followed an expansive policy that Martin now admits was an error. Today's economy is growing far faster than the supply of money available to finance that growth. Ultimately, the resulting collision between the demand and supply of funds is bound to curb bank lending and then business activity...