Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed-On Mules." If the church-owned Monitor does not always attain its ideal balance, it is because it agrees with the Christian Scientists who comprise 85% of its readership (and 90% of its staff) that disease, death and violence are mortal "errors." Thus the Monitor gives only token coverage to top medical stories such as the Salk vaccine; it sternly downplays disaster and crime. It shuns error-prone society and show-business chitchat and runs the world's tersest obituaries (omitting the cause of death and names of survivors...
...elected, he must first be nominated. The politicians who nominate often lag behind the people who elect. I hope that the Democratic politicians do not compound the past failure of the electorate by refusing to give the American people the democratic opportunity of correcting an error...
...executive, "Mac remembers facts, and woe be to anyone in the Pentagon who doesn't remember that Mac can remember every damn thing he ever saw. He can look at a page with hundreds of figures on it and get to the source of any error. He has the same ability to detect a flaw in an argument...
Since his first experience with time, man has devoted some of his most strenuous efforts to measuring and recording its progress. As early as the 6th century B.C. the Babylonians calculated the duration of a lunar month with a margin of error of only 2.2 sec. With the pyramids the Egyptians created gigantic scientific instruments for measuring the solar year, building their sides trued to the four cardinal directions. Using the Egyptian year, Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. made the Julian calendar standard throughout the Roman world. To these scientific measurements, later calendar makers added an overburden of myth, magic...
...addition to scientific knowledge, honest information about our over-all defense posture is necessary. It should not require a politically motivated Congressional investigation to uncover the facts about our military programs. Although the men in charge of these programs may have certain errors to cover up, they have no excuse for irrational secrecy about their affairs. Error is forgivable, deception...