Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrible mistake, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren declared two days later. The White House had just discovered that the appointment was il legal, the result of an administrative error. A President of the U.S. is prohibited by law from appointing his or her spouse to a Government agency. The First Lady's name was to be withdrawn, and another temporary chairman was to be appointed...
...allocations, put together hastily by his Federal Energy Office to meet a Congress-set deadline. They contained one monumental blooper: as originally put forth, the regulations would have forced refineries to cut gasoline production 25%. After a day of scare headlines and stock market rout, the FEO confessed its error and announced that it would really order only a 5% reduction, based on 1972 levels...
...typographical error in yesterday's Crimson, the exam date for group VII appeared as January 24. Exams for group VIII will actually be held on that date...
...error of confusing the heritability within a population with the causes of differences between populations was clearly made by Arthur Jensen in his famous article in the Harvard Educational Review, when he tried to infer from heritability studies within the American white population the causes of differences between races. This elementary blunder would not be tolerated in a freshman class in statistics or genetics. We may well wonder how it came to be made by a professor! Precisely the same error is made in arguments about the genetic inferiority of the working class. By referring over and over again...
...with infectious enthusiasm before the team huddles and after he calls the plays (all sent in by Van Brocklin, a former quarterback). When Lee is tackled he hops up off the ground and claps again. "I'm not afraid to admit it when I've made an error," he says in his low-key way. His teammates appreciate that style. "Lee never eats us out when he gets sacked," marvels Offensive Tackle Bill Sandeman. "He simply tells us, 'Let's get it together, guys...