Word: errors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writing to correct an error in the statistics reported in the Crimson regarding the admission of women to the Harvard Medical School. The places offered for the first-year class included "approximately 33 per cent women"--not, as was reported, a "33 per cent increase in the number of women...
...error is probably more mine than the reporters' because I was away from my office and did not have the statistics. Stephen J. Miller, Ph.D. Associate Dean of the Medical School
...think it is an error to appraise any kind of music from a principally commercial viewpoint as you did in your story on pop records [Feb. 12]. Music, after all, is music, a species of art. The promoters and wheeler-dealers couldn't have made Yesterday (to name one pop classic) any more meaningful or beautiful. The quality of a song is unalterable...
...Flight 4114, which left Benghazi on the regular run to Cairo. Flying along the Mediterranean coast, the plane turned south at El Alamein, then northeast at El Fayoum for the approach to Cairo. Inexplicably, Captain Bourges missed Cairo by a wide margin; the only reasonable explanation for his error was heavy cloud conditions over the area that afternoon that might have affected his navigational equipment...
...held to a steady-as-she-goes insistence that the economy in 1971 would turn up strongly without more Government stimulation. He made a celebrated prediction that the gross national product in 1971 would reach $1,065 billion; it turned out to be some $15 billion less, a huge error. "The most dramatic mistake I was involved in," he admits, "was in judging that the economy in 1971 would expand more rapidly than...