Word: error
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This year, 17 class marshal finalists were selected as opposed to 16 in past years, a change which raised speculation among several students that a technical error had led to an additional student being placed among the finalists...
...basis of how many of their graduates clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justices, though they are not formally ranked on this metric. Despite being about a third the size of Harvard Law, Yale currently has 10 clerks at the Court, while Harvard has nine. This year, due to errors in reporting of data, some law schools were assigned abnormally high rankings—an irregularity that saw the University of North Dakota School of Law placed above Harvard Law School for a short time. Robert J. Morse, director of data research at U.S. News & World Report, stated that law schools...
...easily. On Wednesday, Sept. 15, he became the country's 60th Prime Minister and only the fourth since 1955 from a party other than the long-ensconced Liberal Democrats (LDP). At his first presser since officially assuming the post, he asked the Japanese people for patience. "Through trial and error, we may make mistakes," he said. "But I would like the Japanese people to be gentle with us." He continued, "This is an encounter with the unknown, and we're embarking on a trip that we've never experienced." His Cabinet appointments immediately received praise. But a big question remains...
...Olympics, the difference between a gold medal and not placing can be a fraction of a second. The author, a media consultant, believes that the margin of error for business people is similarly thin in this turbulent economy. Those who would prefer to keep their job--and that would include most of us--can regard the book as a checklist of things you can do to protect your position or get a new one. You may already know many of them, but perhaps it's that one unfamiliar tip that will keep your ass in your Aeron...
...occasion, the contestants will jump around the board instead of taking a category with the clues in order. So I decided many years ago I was going to cross the clues off so I do not, in error, go back and reread them. I'm pretty good now. I never read a clue that has a big X through it. That's why they pay me the big bucks...