Word: errors
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Indeed, many tanker accidents are the result of human error, and there is real reason for concern over the uneven experience and training of tanker captains and crews (see box). What to do? The usual complaint is that worldwide shipping is so diffuse that effective regulation is impossible. As Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson put it last week: "I don't see how you can have control when you have American-owned ships insured by the British, run by the Greeks, with Italian officers and a Chinese crew...
...trick," says a top American orienteer, Peter Gagarin, "is to balance between speed and accuracy. You can be a terrifically fast runner, but that's no good at all if you can't find the checkpoints." Indeed, a small error in compass reading can land an orienteer dozens of yards away from−and make him unable to spot−a plastic punch dangling from a tree. Each punch makes a distinctive perforation in the hiker's punch card, indicating that he reached a particular checkpoint...
Judge Smith found that Nixon was personally liable for damages because he had initiated and overseen the wiretap program without setting specific limits on it. Mitchell, the judge said, was in error because he had failed to review periodically the need for the taps. Haldeman was liable because he too did not put a stop to the monitoring, and in addition used bugs for political spying (after leaving the NSC. Halperin served for a time as an adviser to Presidential Aspirant Edmund Muskie). The judge, however, dismissed charges against three other officials named in the suit, including Secretary of State...
...Wright, 53, who started his political career as an avowed liberal but has evolved into a conservative on many issues. Like O'Neill, Wright has few declared foes. Fourth and last in the race book was California's John J. McFall, 48, who had compounded the error of taking "gifts" from South Korea's Tongsun Park by denying, untruthfully, that he had done...
HALSMAN: I never was an apprentice or assistant to another photographer. Everything that I know I learned by trial and error. I considered every assignment as a problem and my picture as its solution. I don't belong to photographers who shoot out of instinct--a lot of thinking goes into my taking or should I say making of pictures. A photograph is not only the solution of a photographic problem, it is also a statement of the photographer about his subject. The deeper the photographer, the deeper his statement. Therefore, in my opinion, the photographer should not concentrate solely...