Word: err
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems always better to err on the side of caution....Continuing to run the nuclear arms race, erring on the side of caution...hasn't really been all that dangerous. It's simply been a moderate expense...
...decision quickly won support from both parties. Last week the agency reversed itself and reimposed the ban. "It was a mistake to suspend the rule," admitted Gary Dietrich, director of the agency's office of solid wastes. Added Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch: "I believe the EPA should err on the side of caution...
...lessons Noam Chomsky sets out to teach us in Toward a New Cold War are invaluable. The United States, like any other nations, can and does err, and often in a big way. But Chomsky cannot support at all his implicit diagnosis that America is "bad." While the United States has often taken the wrong path, it has rarely failed to demonstrate--at least in the long run--the courage to reverse its steps...
...long slide out of a bad indulgence. Shepard is difficult, and Suicide in B Flat is one of his best plays--which, from the point of view of a theater company, is a double blessing and a double curse. Thus, though the Harvard Summer Theatre Ensemble sometimes errs in their current production of Suicide they err on the side of the angels...
...justice, and not for technical errors. One reason: such petitions account for only a small portion of a court's work load and most are promptly dismissed. Moreover, points out Howard Eisenberg, executive director of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association: "One person's technical err or is another person's miscarriage of justice...