Word: error
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...lecture the rest of the world on the wonders of democracy. The great men of 17th century Britain knew better. Forever arguing, disputing, pamphleteering, they were tormented by their own imperfections and those of the messy designs upon which they somehow built a functioning state. Humility, admission of error, a recognition that no form of government is without fault or compromise - these are the values that democrats once avowed, and should do again...
...should only be used to play Monopoly," says opposition legislative leader Wilfredo Navarro. "President Daniel Ortega is a counterfeiter. That's the level things have gotten to in Nicaragua these days." The lawmaker, a member of the legislature's Economic Commission, says "any serious government" would immediately recognize the error and recall the money. But so far the Sandinistas aren't budging...
...eventually find the texts on their phones. The second sentence of the messages were truncated to read “Police ask people to remain indoors and avoi—” cutting off the two final words, “the area.” The error resulted from the Message Me system’s inability to send texts longer than 160 characters, including the message heading, according to Galvin. University officials conducted a series of meetings yesterday, discussing the performance of the Message Me system, and possible modifications and upgrades, including integrating it with Facebook...
...Dowd] didn't say whether it was conveyed by phone or e-mail," pointed out Times spokeswoman Diana McNulty. "In any case, it was an error. It was corrected. Anyone with even the most passing acquaintance with Maureen's work knows that she does not hesitate to attribute other people's work...
...miscued. In hindsight, eastern Germany's economic wellbeing was sabotaged at the very beginning of the reunification process by the political decision to exchange its currency for West German marks at the rate of one-to-one. Haimann, of the Halle Chamber of Commerce, thinks that was a crucial error. The true value of the old East German mark was just one-fourth or one-fifth of the West German currency, so when it was swapped in 1990 at parity, the competitiveness of the local economy took a nosedive - compounded by a quick doubling of wages in the east following...