Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headline in Wednesday's paper, "Fellow Alleges Error in K-School Report; Researcher: Objection Led to Dismissal," incorrectly identified an air pollution study...
...particular, Garsd said in the memo that someof the figures on sulfuric acid levels in onecity's air suddenly dropped, suggesting arecording error...
...minimize the possibility of error, Thomureasked that the recount be conducted by hand.Yesterday, the Election Commission hired about 40former poll workers to count the votes, payingthem $7 an hour, said Commissioner Edward J. Samp,one of the two commissioners supervising theprocess...
...course, we have already heard calls from Morris' associates for leniency. "RTM" (as Morris cleverly dubbed himself), didn't mean to do it, and his virus went awry due to a programming error, say his friends. Other friendly theories propose that Morris was just trying to prove something to his father, a computer scientist with the top-secret National Security Agency, or (get this) he was trying to perform a public benefit by showing how vulnerable the nation's computer systems are. One friend even says the virus will turn to Morris' profit, as his notoriety attracts hundreds of lucrative...
These are variations on motherhood's worst-case scenario: you turn your back for a moment or make, under pressure of conflicting emotions, what seems to you only a minor error in judgment, and suddenly your child is snatched from you. For Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) in A Cry in the Dark, the loss is permanent: she never sees her baby again, alive or dead. For Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) in The Good Mother, the outcome is not quite so cruel: she faces losing custody of her daughter Molly, but not the child's death. Yet both mothers find themselves...