Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harmful biological materials are prevented from escaping because the lab is sealed. "The pressure inside the p-3 labs is negative and there are exhaust systems," Leahy said. He added, however, that the human error factor in the lab work could cause harm if the prescribed National Institute of Health (NIH) guidelines are not carefully followed...
...magic moment in American history. Which, of course, is a misreading of history. The magic Camelot of John F. Kennedy never existed. The knights of his round table were able, tough, ambitious men, capable of kindness, also capable of error. Of them all, Kennedy was the toughest, the most intelligent, the most attractive-and inside, the least romantic. He was a realistic dealer in men, a master of games who understood the importance of ideas. He advanced the cause of America, at home and abroad. But he also posed for the first time the great question...
...full time in 1975, he was 22 and a born star. From the third week of the season until he broke his finger at season's end, Rice was Boston's starting leftfielder. He batted .309 with 22 home runs and 102 RBIS and fielded without an error in 144 games protecting Fenway's famous wall. But 1975 was also the year the centerfielder Fred Lynn became the first rookie MVP in baseball history, hitting .331 with 105 RBIS. Jim Rice's remarkable season had been eclipsed. It finished with a severe hand injury. The also-ran watched the play...
...been placed in the hold category, says he does not believe the LSATs played a major role in his rejection. "The people Harvard rejected from the hold category weren't the ones who got screwed. The people who were rejected early on, before the Law School knew about the error--they're the ones who got screwed," Savage says. He adds, "Standardized testing ought to be reviewed in general, I think, not only in the light of the LSAT screwup, but the MCATs...
...will force schools to develop more thorough, accurate admissions procedures. Castello says he thinks schools tend to place too much emphasis on test scores because of their convenience. "ETS will tell you that a statistical variation of 60 to 70 points is insignificant," Castello says, adding, "That range of error tends not to be widely enough respected. A law school regards an applicant with 700s very differently from one with 630s, for example...