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...been relatively strong against the run and we’ve got to stay that way,” Murphy said. “We can beat this team but we can’t do it with any mistakes. There just isn’t enough margin for error...
...William Pickering, a Caltech alumnus who learned his trade setting off rockets in the dry riverbed that is all J.P.L. once was. Dozens of those rockets sometimes blew themselves to bits before one finally flew, but each failure taught Pickering something. "The era of rocketry really was trial and error," says former J.P.L. director Ed Stone. Adds Elachi: "Almost every lab director has kept the same philosophy." That has helped the lab survive many rocky patches, such as in the 1960s, when Pickering's moon probes flopped six times before Ranger 7 succeeded; and in 1999, when the Mars Polar...
Love and music-listening are more often about slow-burning simmers or trial-and-error processes than about revelatory moments in which the song Natalie Portman gives you actually changes your life. And it’s comforting for a video to acknowledge that, I suppose...
...application does eliminate the inadvertent selection of an incorrect course on the part of the students,” Kane wrote in an e-mail. “The Registrar’s Office was able to process all of the enrollment data this term without a single processing error...
With such little time, the margin for error is so thin that “it’s like being on a tight rope and hoping you don’t trip,” says McCambridge. That’s exactly what happened with Snoop—the Boston Police Department unexpectedly demanded that Harvard hire extra police officers for the show, and the HCC simply didn’t have the money or the time to save the event...