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Word: error (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game started with promise as Allen led off with a two-base error. After McConaghy and Caprio singled to load the bases, Renninger hit a sacrifice fly and Morelli singled to put Harvard...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Batsmen Split Two With Boston College | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

Republican Sen. Jan Brewer said she felt Mecham "made a serious error," but she added, "I do not think it is sufficient to remove him from office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mecham Convicted By Arizona Senate | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...simple clerical error, but it could be the most expensive typo of all time. In 1978 Prudential, the largest insurance company in the U.S., lent $160 million to United States Lines, a shipping firm. As part of the deal, Prudential got a lien on eight ships. In 1986 United States Lines went into bankruptcy proceedings and started selling off assets. Prudential said it was owed nearly $93 million, the value of the lien, from the ships' sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLUNDERS: An $11 Million Typo | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

...increased its ranks of telephone assisters by 1,000, to 4,500. To determine whether correct information is going out, the IRS is making 20,000 anonymous calls in which common tax problems are posed to its assisters. So far the results are disappointing. After 5,000 calls, the error rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in A Brier Patch of Changes | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...News-Washington Post poll, conducted Saturday and Sunday and published in yesterday's Post, gave Simon the lead with 39 percent support to Jackson's 34 percent among very likely Democratic voters. Dukakis had 17 percent with Gore and Gephardt far behind. The potential sampling error was plus or minus 6 percentage points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dole, Simon Struggle in Illinois | 3/15/1988 | See Source »

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