Word: error
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's best first-half opportunity came on an Eli error. After disarming Crimson co-captain Julie Brynteson, Yale defender Merrill Weyerhauser nudged the ball back to Colwell. The pass slipped through the goalie's hands and sputtered towards the net, but Colwell recovered in time and smothered it at the goalmouth...
...generally excellent article on Hispanics in America [Oct. 16] was marred by an error that I must attempt to correct or my family would never forgive me. You have wronged my grandfather, who was not an illegal alien as you stated. He came to the U.S. legally in 1880, and settled in Brownsville, Texas, where he became a citizen of the state and the nation under the laws then in effect...
...been known to effectively shut out imports by finding fault with documentation. Moreover, since there is no reciprocity between Japan and the U.S. on normal standards, certifications and product health and safety regulations, foreign imports have to face lengthy and expensive testing procedures. Until very recently, even the smallest error gave minor bureaucrats an excuse to order the whole thing redone. Certification, laments John Quick, vice president in charge of GM's Asia-Pacific operations, is "a long, involved process that can take up to eight months" and requires "carloads of papers...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror. Barbara W. Tuchman∙American Caesar, William Manchester∙E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙American Caesar, William Manchester ∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III. Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen...