Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Nureyev's defection. Grigorovich was already vulnerable because of fierce opposition within the company to his authoritarian rule; the defection could only make his position worse. It was said that he had insisted on taking Godunov to the U.S., and that he had compounded his error by thrusting Kozlov forward. In Moscow, he had previously been attacked in Pravda by one of his dancers for tampering with classics like Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake. Such great Bolshoi stars as Maya Plisetskaya and Vladimir Vasiliev so dislike his choreography that they have refused to dance in his ballets...
Things started off poorly for Penn and they just got worse. Quarterback Gib Carter fumbled on the team's fist offensive play, an error that led to a Cornell field goal and the beginning of the Big Red's 31-7 halftime lead. Dick Clasby, the Cornell fullback and son, the great Harvard running back of the '50s, collected the touchdown that put Cornell ahead...
...feeling of smugness and superiority masking a feeling of inferiority and hysteria. This dates from an episode ten years ago when he was living in Salzburg, Austria, and a computer sent all of his Diners' Club bills by surface mail to Salisbury, Australia, but then unaccountably caught its error each month in time to send the subsequent "pay up or die" threats winging directly to Salzburg...
...poll has a margin of error of three per cent either...
...building codes elsewhere are less strict. The risk to life and property, say officials, is still considerable despite giant leaps in the art of weather forecasting. Such is the wildly unpredictable nature of hurricanes that the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables gives itself a 100-mile margin of error on a 24-hour forecast...