Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decisive, but an early nationwide sampling of opinion gave a slight edge to Ford. Telephoning 1,065 voters, the Associated Press found 34.4% thought he had won, 31.8% considered Carter the winner and 33.8% either figured it a tie or had no opinion. (Statistically, this sample carries a possible error of 2.9%.) A Louis Harris/ABC News poll taken the day after the debate also showed that viewers, by a narrow margin, thought Ford had won. Also, according to Harris, Carter had led Ford 52%-39% before the debate, but slipped to a 50%-41% margin afterward...
...most dubious shot of the debate was Ford's assertion that "Mr. Carter wants to increase taxes for roughly half of the taxpayers of this country." Carter was correct in pointing out that this assumption was based on an error in an Associated Press report of an interview with him, and that the White House had long ago been informed of the error. In the interview, Carter had said that he intended to "shift a substantial increase " [in taxes] toward those who have the higher incomes and reduce the income [tax] on the lower-income and middle-income taxpayers." Quite...
Along with some specific defenses of decisions on computer systems and applications, Harvard officials have argued, in Champion's words, that such decisions must involve some "trial and error" and loss of money. "An inferior system will work better among people who respect one another than a system that might be more useful" but that is being created or operated by persons suspicious of each other, Champion added...
...EXECUTING ENEMIES. A head isn't like a leek. It doesn't grow again once it's been cut. If you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there's no way of doing...
...junction of routes to Turkey, Greece and Mediterranean resorts-is one of Europe's busiest air corridors, and the Yugoslav pilot was unaware that the British Trident was already flying at that altitude. Zagreb's air controllers may well be responsible for this fatal error. The preliminary opinion of Vjeceslav Jakovac, the Yugoslav judge heading the investigation, was that the controllers probably had incorrectly assessed the altitude of the planes. Five of the controllers were taken into custody for questioning. If found guilty, they could face stiff penalties; in 1974, a Zagreb locomotive engineer found responsible...