Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South and in the North, on the farms and in the cities, with the whites and with the black Americans, with the old and the young." He talked tough about the Soviets. Approval of SALT, he declared, would "guarantee to the Soviet Union the margin for error that used to be ours." He said the nation must have a President who will "face up to the realities of a Soviet foreign policy that probes every weakness and fills every vacuum...
Acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Thorwald Anderson Jr., 42, at first denied the charges, then backtracked. "I certainly made an error for which there is no excuse," said Anderson. "I further erred because I denied it to Star reporters. We will now test the ancient adage that bad publicity is better than no publicity at all." Walter H. Mann, 63, chief judge of the state's Fifth District, admitted his guilt and advocated decriminalization, calling prostitutes "compassionate human beings." State Senator Jack Kleinbaum, 62, also owned up to visiting certain saunas, but added, "It isn't something...
Only a $3 billion error...
...York's Manufacturers Hanover admitted to causing the error. The bank blamed employees' unfamiliarity with a new form used for deposit reports to the Fed. Despite its cluster of computers, the multinational giant was as fallible as any citizen trying to balance a checkbook...
...counting usually takes five days, as candidates watch election workers pore over the ballots. Rumors--usually unsubstantiated--fly around the gym like bouncing basketballs, and often workers have to retrace their steps to find where an error has been made. But Cantabrigians love the system. One election commission handout calls it a "much more sophisticated way to choose representatives than the more common methods. It guarantees representation to minorities, whether they are political, ethnic or racial, and prevents voters from wasting their votes on candidates who have more than enough votes to win or who have no chance of winning...