Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolution of our internal conflict?the recognition that if we cannot unite our own nation, then we cannot preserve the hope of others." But that, he added carefully, did not mean a pell-mell pullout from Viet Nam. "To have entered the war by the path of error does not mean that we can now leave through the door of default...
...Error Margin. To justify the apparent turnabout, Gallup suggested that the timing of the poll taking was crucial. Gallup's sampling was made between July 19 and 21, just after Dwight Eisenhower endorsed Nixon. Ike's announcement may have swung some sentiment to his former Vice President...
...error margin of as much as two or three percentage points is routinely assumed as a hazard of the pollster's trade-but that could hardly account for the startling discrepancies in last week's results. All three pollsters used basically the same techniques, although they often differ in their philosophies of interpretation. Gallup, for example, believes that "our job begins and ends with the reporting of facts." Harris argues that survey results are meaningful only if they are digested and interpreted. Each pollster has his own methods. Harris likes to reinterview some one he has already talked...
Some day, perhaps, the air will be fully automated, a three-dimensional slot car track with computer-controlled aircraft shuffling around the sky without crowding or possible human error. Meanwhile, the Senate last week passed a bill exempting the FAA from blanket manpower cuts, enabling the agency to hire 3,627 more air controllers at a cost of $145 million. Once hired, they will take two years to train...
...hunched behind his radarscope, adjusting the scanner, like a television cameraman, until it gave him a moving, living map of partially cloud-obscured plantation country northwest of Saigon. Under that cover was the target, a suspected troop concentration. Everything had to go right the first time. The slightest navigational error up here could mean a horrendous mistake on the ground...