Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Human Error. Until recently, it was impossible to get the figures that tell the rags-to-riches story. But the Tax Reform Act of 1969 required tax-exempt Boys Town to file a public statement of financial position for the first time. Warren Buffett, 41, owner of seven Omaha weekly newspapers that have already won two national awards, last week seized the opportunity to publish the first expose of Boys Town's finances; a six-man team headed by Editor Paul Williams had worked on the project since November. Buffett, a Protestant and self-made millionaire who until...
...private office. Assured by his source that the work had been completed, Anderson ran a column accusing Rumsfeld of frittering away tax dollars while the poor languished. Actually, no alteration had been started. Admits Anderson: "I had the poverty czar living in luxury. It was a terrible error-the worst mistake I ever made...
...Error-Free. The case came to a head last December when Ehlen went up before the seminary's board for a lifetime tenure appointment. The meeting was also attended by Church President Jacob Preus. Preus, former head of the Missouri Synod's other seminary, Concordia of Springfield, Ill., is a theological conservative who holds that the Bible is error-free and that such stories as the Exodus must be taken at face value...
...vanished frontier. "Daily our grandparents are moving out of our lives," Wigginton writes in his brief preface. "When they're gone, the magnificent hunting tales, the ghost stories that kept a thousand children sleepless, the intricate tricks of self-sufficiency acquired through years of trial and error . . . all these go with them, and what a loss." What the students brought back could have been as tiresome as any other high school magazine; in fact, Foxfire has been coming out quarterly ever since, gathering subscriptions across the U.S. Presented in this anthology, the material has the straight, tough grain...
WITHOUT knowing about the background of Collins and the nature of his draft board, one could excuse this case as an error of justice. While it was certainly that, there is strong reason to suspect that various government agencies wanted Collins put away for a while...