Word: error
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Journal-Bulletin, had carefully slipped a disk holding six months' worth of notes and interviews into one of the newsroom computers when the machine's familiar whir was pierced by a sharp, high-pitched beep. Each time she tried to call a file to the screen, the warning DISK ERROR flashed instead. It was as if the contents of her floppy disk had vanished. "I got that sinking feeling," recalls Joselow. "Every writing project of mine was on that disk...
...significance of these small slips, especially since both Bush and Dukakis are stronger on factual knowledge than they are on vision. Ignore all the post-debate babble of commentators who like to pounce on gaffes. Turn the tables by giving 2 points to any candidate who catches his own error and offers a graceful correction...
...article in yesterday's paper describing the Hasty Pudding Theatricals annual show incorrectly identified the organization as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Club. There is no such organization, but the error might have confused the Theatricals with the Hasty Pudding Club, to which it is unrelated...
...Marius' error ironically occured while he gave samples of plagiarism for students to evaluate, when he confused the name of a primary source with the author's first name while reading the text...
Marius apologized for the error but said it did not interfere with the gist of his speech...