Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporting error, a December 9 article entitled "KSG Hosts Orientation for Congressional Frosh" incorrectly identified Sarah Farnsworth. She is the Institute of Politics Forum coordinator and the program's press coordinator. The article also incorrectly stated the length of the program. It will last for six days...
...editing error, a December 8 article entitled "10 Faculties Financially Strongest in 15 Years" misstated the amount of Harvard's endowment. It is $3.5 billion...
Word-processors allow a writer starting from scratch to produce an error-proof final copy without any intermediate print-outs or excessive use of liquid paper. This is one of their biggest drawbacks...
...however, in the suddenly intertwined cases of Iran and the contras, all the distressing tendencies of the Administration have combined to produce the kind of blunders that resonate far more than an error in judgment, however serious. Errors in judgment can be, and in Reagan's case regularly have been, forgiven. But this disaster throws a pitiless light on the way the President does his job, confirming the worst fears of both his friends and his critics. Simultaneously stumbling into the Iran fiasco and allowing a bizarre scam to fund the contras to take place had an impact powerful enough...
...Watergate scandal escalated only because of Nixon's cover-up. His demise was the result, not of an "error" by his henchmen, but of his willful deceit, his lying to the American people...