Word: errors
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...away and know that it will drop within the base line. Equally important, he can hit the ball high over the net and still pin his opponent deep in the court. With classic, flat tennis strokes?the kind hit by such stars as Connors and McEnroe?the margin for error is reduced to an area some 6 in. over the net: hit the ball lower, it will catch the tape, higher and it will sail out of play. With topspin, however, the ball can fly several feet above the net and still drop down into play. After it clears...
However, a commonly believed error crept into the accompanying article on his life: that he never gave Fernande Olivier, his first mistress, any financial aid. I saw her in 1966. She was white-haired and bedridden, looked very small in her tiny apartment in the environs of Paris, and had pinned on the wall postcards of Picasso's Blue Period paintings. She told me she had never asked him for a penny, but that when she became too crippled to work a year or so before, a mutual friend had told Pablo, and since then he had paid...
Powers notes in retrospect that at the time "the news was carrying all that stuff about 18- per-cent inflation every day," adding that he may have committed a strategical error presenting the 10-9-8 before negotiations were slated to begin. "Sometimes if you offer nothing at first and then come back with something, you look incredibly generous," he says. When the Local 26 team forwarded its list of demands at the initial bargaining session April 9, Powers dismissed them as "unrealistic," withdrew his original 10-9-8 offer, and refused to present a counterproposal until the union drastically...
Donald Berwick, instructor in Pediatrics at the Medical School, responding to the study released last week, said yesterday, "People who liberate their diets to include more cholesterol because of the NRC report could be making a serious error...
...sampling error in the telephone survey is plus or minus 3%; the error factor for comparing current results with those of past surveys...