Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henry, a first-year graduate student in Economics, called Epps's decision an administrative error. Excluding "one segment of the student population from the event served no real purpose in advancing an environment of free speech," Henry said...
...nothing that damages it." Among the findings: a photograph illustrating one of Gallo's key papers on the discovery of the virus actually depicted the Pasteur strain. The mistake may have been accidental, but it has proved embarrassing to Gallo, who last month published a formal admission of the error...
...Boris Yletsin, a candidate-member of the Politburo, said reservoirs near the plant were contaminated and the area remained too radioactive for residents to return. In remarks to the West German television network ARD, Yletsin said of the accident, "The cause lies apparently in the subjective realm, in human error. We are undertaking measures to make sure that this doesn't happen again...
...worker's error in removing control rods from the core of the SL-1 military experimental reactor near Idaho Falls caused a fatal steam explosion. Three servicemen were killed, one of them by impalement on a control rod. The deaths were the first fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations...
...Both the printer and ETS have quality control standards," said a spokesman for Educational Testing Service (ETS) of Princeton, N.J., which administers the SAT. "Somehow the error got through both. We're going to have to reevaluate the way we quality-check the tests. This never happened before--but once is all it takes," the spokesman said...