Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runs in the second and third innings. In the second, Gary Stewart walked with one out and a faulty pickoff attempt by pitcher Stewart balked him to second base. After Kevin McDonald fanned, Bob Santilli singled to left to score B.C.'s Stewart. In the next inning an error by St. John eventually led to B.C.'s other score...
...recent years, commercial aviation has evolved into a highly integrated system aimed at eliminating human error and demanding perfection from both the planes that fly and the avionics that monitor them from the ground...
...grim reality of flying today is that the margins of error are slim indeed and that any mistake can create a holocaust. The skies are filled with jumbo jets carrying hundreds of passengers. Closing speeds can reach 1,000 m.p.h. or more, making it difficult for humans to react quickly enough in the event of error. The congestion at major airports is so great at peak hours ?late Friday afternoon is especially bad?that air controllers have to order incoming jets to stack up at altitude intervals of 1,000 ft. The landing is a carefully choreographed minuet...
...THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS: The short runway at the Harry Truman Airport gives jet pilots too little margin for error, and was blamed for the crash of an American Airlines jet last year. Construction of a runway extension has not yet begun, though federal funds have been made available...
Phony Soldiers. Little by little, though, the fun seemed to pall. Sigi complained of sleeping badly and rushed back from his vacations in Austria and Italy. One day, after a routine check uncovered a $125 error in one of his books, a tense Schmidt tooled off to the nearest police station. There he told an incredible story: he had invented thousands of phony troops, put them on the battalion's books, and then drawn their very real pay-some $500,000. Since he had logged in his first "recruits," many of whose names Schmidt picked out of the phone...