Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Saturday, March 1, The Crimson ran a picture of two men with bars superimposed. No connection between the people in the picture and the subject matter of the article was intended. Any implication that the men have ever served in prison was unintentional and erroneous. The Crimson regrets the error...
Speaking directly to Jarriel, who has been recapping the day's events at the Winter Olympics, Kaplan tells him that he has, through an error in the copy, reduced the 1,500-meter women's speed-skating race to 15 meters; he is told to add another 1,485 meters at 6:30. Later, Kaplan tells Jarriel how he himself knew the difference. "I got a call from a redheaded fellow who cares about these things." Translation: News Head Roone Arledge had been watching in Lake Placid...
...noticed, he forgot to say the word "near," as in "the framework of a plan to free the hostages is in place or near at hand." The mistake is not very important, but Robinson nonetheless goes live for the first few seconds of the third show to rectify the error...
...embargo on grain will come to be known as a grievous error in judgment. Grain will find its way to the U.S.S.R. through bogus buyers and sellers and middlemen...
...week's end the FBI had questioned some two dozen controllers, but a number of others were refusing to provide any information to the investigators except their names, ages and home addresses. Anthony Maimone, head of Local 160, insisted that human error or mechanical failure was to blame and accused the FAA of "blowing this thing out of proportion." Said a former PATCO official: "I just cannot believe that a controller who was not certifiably psychotic would do a thing like that." Whatever the case, said Gabriel Hartl, a spokesman for the Air Traffic Control Association, only...