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...decided to measure the extent of the damage so that I could organize the Resistance. I conducted a precisely calibrated, cross-sectional, amazingly representative survey of 34 undergraduates, with a margin of error of plus or minus 87 points...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: Are You Tired? I'm Tired. | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...treated..." I do not use the phrase "colored people" to refer to persons of color and did not do so when speaking with Mr. Balagur. That phrase, with its unfortunate heritage in the Jim Crow tradition, is generally considered offensive and I very much regret that an apparent transcription error caused Mr. Balagur to attribute it to me. Ellen J. Messing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I Was Misquoted | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Jan. 24 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blacks: Too Much of the Burden? | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Jan. 24 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight Now, Pay Later | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...have a very small margin of error," Harvard Coach Peter Roby is fond of saying of this year's squad...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: M. Cagers 'On' For #23 Tigers | 2/1/1991 | See Source »

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