Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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November 5 test--the admissions board mailed a memorandum to those students whose applications will be reconsidered as a result of the error...
...spokesman for ETS said that the mistake was "a statistical error," but that no one was exactly sure who went wrong...
...problem, but now we've corrected it. There's no sense in asking us whether we have beaten our wife," John Smith, director of media relations, said yesterday, adding that this was the first time in his memory that the ETS has ever made such an error...
...campaign, she admits, was "amateurish, naive and trial by error." Starting far back, she bustled around the state in a Volvo station wagon, stressing the need for economic development and nuclear power, and backing the construction of a Trident submarine base?opposed by the environmentalists?on Puget Sound. She had plenty of energy, an air of bluff honesty that appealed to independents, and a new face. Startling the experts, she defeated Seattle's popular but overconfident Mayor Wes Uhlman, 42, in the primary and then beat Republican John Spellman, 50, the top official in Seattle's King County...
Wachtel, 40, a former Air Force jet instructor-pilot who only started studying immunology in his 30s, does not yet know how the wrong chromosomes acquire the male gene; possibly the error is the result of a mutation or an accidental transfer of genes between chromosomes while the sperm are being produced in the father's testes. In any case, the test has already been put to important clinical use. At New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, for example, a two-year-old child with an enlarged clitoris but a seemingly normal XX chromosome pattern was tested...