Word: error
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...physicists proclaimed their answer: no way. After weeks of thorough experimentation, researchers from numerous prestigious institutions, including M.I.T., Caltech, Yale and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, reported that they had found no evidence of "cold" fusion. The scientists seemed incensed that they had wasted their time trying to replicate an error-filled experiment and chided the University of Utah for requesting a $25 million federal grant based on sloppy research. Said Caltech physicist Steven Koonin: "We are suffering from the incompetence and perhaps the delusions of Professors Pons and Fleischmann." When the nine members of the cold-fusion review panel were...
...writing to apologize for what was no more than a grammatical error in my letter to the editor in The Crimson issue of May 5, 1989. The sentence in question should have read: "It is not that homosexuals are more inclined to sexuality than other men or women...."Again, I apologize for any confusion I may have by this. Lawrence Goodman '92 Undergraduate Council Representative
Carter, who was accompanied by other members of his team, told Bush that a scientific poll conducted by the Roman Catholic Church with a maximum margin of error of eight or nine percent said Noriega had won in only two polling places...
Dorrington went the distance--and then some. The junior pitched three-hit ball in the first game, as the Red scored its lone run on a fielding error. Dorrington came back to start the second game as well, but was relieved by Pete Rau after allowing four Cornell hits in the bottom of the first inning...
...when the council repealed its call for ROTC by a narrow margin last Sunday, many anti-ROTC activists rejoiced in their victory. Democracy had triumphed, they claimed. The council had recognized the error of its ways and had succeeded in correcting its mistakes...