Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the publisher had unity of method in mind. Houghton-Mifflin chose to take the safe, easy approach; and the essays will save many freshmen from silly mistakes. If they do not make the reader stop and wonder, and make that wonder deepen, at least they are free of error and extravagance and demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of a sound, stolid commentary. But it is unfortunate that such a distinguished group of contributors was not given a freer hand; I would much rather have heard what Baker or Kermode had to say for themselves than read the views...
Because of a production error, a portion of the article on the court case of three Tufts students was omitted from yesterday's Crimson. The story appears in full below...
First, the government reported that food prices climbed 20% last year-the biggest increase ever recorded-for an overall rise of 53% since the Tory Party led by Prime Minister Heath came to power in 1970. Then the government Pay Board announced that a major error had been made in computing miners' wages in comparison with those of other industrial workers. The National Coal Board, it explained, had included the miners' three weeks of vacation pay in assessing their pay levels, while pay figures for other industries, calculated by the Department of Trade and Industry, excluded holiday...
General Lee's supporters are mak ing a drive in this session of Congress to restore his lost citizenship. Last week the senate in Virginia, where Lee was born and died, passed a resolution call ing upon Congress to correct the long standing error. It seemed a modest enough request a century after the War Between the States...
...President Nixon, who eventually decided to keep the quotas. In retrospect, that was a grievous error. The quotas helped prompt U.S. oil companies to build their new refineries overseas, where they had access to then plentiful and cheap foreign crude. U.S. refineries have about 3 million to 4 million bbl. less daily capacity than they would need to meet "normal" domestic demand of close to 20 million bbl. That lack will contribute to keeping supplies tight for years after the Arab embargo ends. Now Exxon, which accounts for about 10% of the nation's refinery runs, is almost doubling...