Word: errors
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...formula is empirically derived from the actual rank list standing of Harvard students and is revised whenever a significant error shows up--about once every three years...
Glimp added that the use of PRL in admissions is limited by its degree of inaccuracy. But this error is smaller than that of most similar indices, according to Whitla. "Given the narrowness of the range it's pretty good, but you can see how easy it is for the prediction to be wrong," Glimp said. "PRL can't consider any sort of family problems or emotional pressures or what type of courses the guy's going to take at Harvard...
Khrushchev's gravest error, in his successors' eyes, lay in conducting the Soviet-Red Chinese ideological dispute as if it were a barroom brawl. He was so busy argy-bargying with Peking that he completely failed to recognize China's accelerated scientific progress, thus let Mao Tse-tung gain valuable prestige by exploding his bomb without warning...
Whittaker Chambers spent his life searching for final answers. Spurred by "the need for truth" and "the fear of error," his search carried him into what Albert Camus called "those waterless deserts where thought reaches its confines." After the glaring publicity of the Alger Hiss trial and the 1952 publication of his own confessional autobiography Witness, Chambers withdrew to the seclusion of his Maryland farm. Often his first waking thought was, "Must I live through another day?" This posthumous book, made up of diary excerpts, letters, extended reflections on himself and his time, is the fruit of those years. Edited...
Lulled Partisans. Perhaps the compounding error his fellow professionals were least likely to forgive Goldwater was the utter lack of coordination of his campaign. He could boast that he had put the G.O.P.. which in August was some $600,000 in the red, back in the black. The more pertinent fact was that the organization that had maneuvered the conservative wing into power in San Francisco had turned into a bumbling, disorganized wreck when faced with conducting a full-fledged campaign on a national scale. And the greatest humbler of them all was Barry, who repeatedly took audiences...