Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, others will say less than two. This discrepancy is more than academic debate over statistics; each one of these chalkmarks in the census book represents a person who needs food, a home, clothes, medicine, schooling, work. If you're off by fifteen million and a human margin of error is increasing by a million a year, a whole lot of people--including, eventually, you--are going to be in serious trouble. In the land of the IRS and thick telephone books it may seem inconceivable that a government couldn't count its people (much less provide them with some...
...assassination attempts also demonstrated how quickly the Secret Service can tumble from being lavishly praised to facing stern criticism. No margin of error is allowed in its duties. After Squeaky's loaded gun failed to fire because she had not pulled the slide to force a cartridge into the chamber, Agent Larry Buendorf keenly spotted the gun's glint and wrestled the weapon away from her before she could try again. He became a hero. The still unnamed agents who decided last week that Moore was no risk were shown, of course, to have been painfully wrong...
...going on. Angleton refused to retract a statement he had made earlier in closed session: "It is inconceivable that a secret-intelligence arm of the Government has to comply with all the overt orders of Government." Certainly Angleton had not done so. He conceded that it was an error to examine the mail of Nixon or a person of the stature of Church. "But from a counterintelligence point of view," he added, "it was vitally important to know everything possible about contacts between U.S. citizens and Communist countries...
Twenty years old, Yount has already completed two big league seasons as a starter. The Boy, as we affectionately titled him after seeing four Brewer games, needed a vacation by late August. We were to see him make another error on a routine play two days later in Anaheim...
...that matter, the Boy's error gave the A's a superfluous run. The three A's pitchers allowed the Brewers only four hits after the first inning. Rollie Fingers, of the 1890's mustache and 1970's rubber arm, put down a mild Milwaukee rally, a one-out single in the ninth, to end the game...