Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good and bad; that makes and unfolds error...
Klubock declined to say last night exactly what further steps he plans to take in the case. To appeal at this point Klubock would have to prove that an error during the court proceedings had denied Offner a fair trial...
Keep Them Guessing. The ultimate decision will be left to William McChesney Martin, the outgoing Federal Reserve chairman, who has a reason to favor continued stringency. Twice since 1966, Martin's board has made major errors in expanding the money supply too much and too soon. The Fed committed its worst error in mid-1968, when it increased the money supply by 14% to counteract the expected deflationary effects of the surtax. That action sharply accelerated the current inflation. Martin now wants to restore his reputation as a sound-money man by making sure that inflation is effectively constrained...
...Lindsay has made an error late in the campaign, it was his order that city flags fly at half mast to mark Vietnam Moratorium Day. It was a beautiful thing to witness, but it only added to his alienation from civil servants and blue collar workers. Police cars and buses burned their headlights to show support for President Nixon. It is true such individuals as drove them were not likely to cast their lot with Lindsay in any case, but even for opponents of the war his action raised the specter of another mayor at another time marshalling a different...
Capitalist Instinct. Eric Gordon, a self-styled "leftist socialist" who went to China in November 1965 to edit and translate revolutionary tracts and literature for Peking's Foreign Language Press, also made one costly error. Preparing to leave China in November 1967, he packed some notebooks in his suitcases. As a result of this "smuggling," he lived with his wife and son for two years like characters in an existential drama, locked in a single hotel room...