Word: errors
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...points higher than their white counterparts." As pointed out in the January statement, the largest difference for any year was 50 points, and the typical difference in a given year in 40 points for the verbal and mathematics SATs combined. The Crimson is not alone in its error. One recent article published in a journal, The Public Interest, mistakenly reported a 112-point difference in the combined SAT verbal and mathematics scores for admitted Asian American and white students...
...just for a company but for the entire economy," says M.I.T. economist Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate. Modigliani adds that while the debt mountain has not yet grown perilously high, "LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk...
Tactical explanations don't go far. After all, the biggest tactical error of this campaign, Quayle, was made by the other guy. And tactical explanations miss the bigger picture. The Democratic Party is not the only left-of-center party to find itself increasingly shut out of national power. Earlier this month Israel's Labor Party lost its third election out of the past four. Its decline appears irreversible. The same is true for Britain's Labor Party, defeated for the third time in a row last year...
That kind of error can mislead doctorsdangerously by suggesting that a disease is veryrare when in reality it is not, Scatena said...
Sudduth and Graham have maintained that Morris did not intend for the program to get out of hand. MIT programmers who contained the attack at their facilities said a programming error, instructing the virus to reproduce itself in every 10th--instead of 10,000th--computer, led to its explosive growth and crashing of several systems. Without that error, friends said, the virus would have harmlessly lodged in a few computers, allowing Morris to track his creation's progress...