Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many rebate checks mailed out by the Harvard Cooperative Society within the last month were misaddressed due to a computer error...
...each case, the officer carries with him the original confirming message, typed on plain bond paper, which he hands to the next of kin. Regulations stipulate that the notification be "error free"-double-checked for accuracy, with no erasures, no smudges. The standard text sent last week to all B-52 next of kin, with minor variations, reads as follows: "It is with deep personal concern that I officially inform you that your son is missing in action in North Viet Nam on Dec. 19. He was a navigator on board a B-52 aircraft that crashed after apparently being...
...bombing continues, it seems a grim certainty that the P.O.W.-M.I.A. count will climb still higher. More notification officers will be fanning out across the U.S. in weeks to come, clutching their "error-free" confirming messages, just as regulations prescribe...
...CASE HISTORY OF COMRADE V by James Park Sloan. A government scientist in the County of L- is accused of a statistical error and persecuted by an enigmatic bureaucracy. Kafka with mirrors...
...actionable than a false charge of corruption. What recourse does a person have if someone writes that he is not worthy of his appointment? Expressions of opinion, however inaccurate or misleading, are protected. Still, it is not irrelevant in the present instance that these opinions are also based on error, indeed, on such an array of misinformation as would (or should) embarrass the most hardened exponent of advocacy journalism. To choose just three blatant examples...