Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What a costly error on the part of the unfortunate Palestinian terrorists. Didn't anyone tell them the U.S. is the place to commit a crime? A mere week or so of deliberations, a possible term in jail, then out on bail in no time, ready to kill again...
...variations in the most recent samplings can be accounted for by the standard margin for error in opinion surveys (3 points), by differences in polling techniques and by the fact that Gallup and Harris polled after the second debate, in which Carter did well. Also, Yankelovich does not try to push those who seem genuinely undecided into saying how they are leaning, while Gallup and Harris sometimes do. Thus the percentage of undecided in Yankelovich polls is generally larger. On the other hand, both Gallup and Harris try to weed out those who indicate that they are unlikely to vote...
...play in the Yankee burst was George Brett's error on Carlos May's dribbler down the third base line. But Brett more than made up for the miscue when he walloped a three run homer with Al Cowens and Jim Wohlford aboard in the top of the eighth that momentarily silenced the boisterous capacity crowd...
...these are the intangibles of the season, more or less the human element which cannot be measured on paper. And there is no reason to lament them. Unpredictability and human error are part of sports and should be appreciated. Thank God that professional athletes are not yet machines whose performances can be fed into an odds maker's computer in January. Wouldn't sports be boring if teams finished seasons in the order they had been ranked months earlier...
...might not be able to pass the physical, because of the malocclusion of his teeth and his slight case of flat feet. Typically, and no doubt fruitlessly, he rolled his fallen arches over Coke bottles for some time before his first physical in hope of correcting nature's error. A Congressman got him his appointment to the academy...