Word: errors
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Northrop has been promoting the F-20 as a less expensive and more reliable alternative to General Dynamics' widely used F-16. The Tigershark's reputation had already suffered from a crash last October in South Korea, although investigators blamed the accident on pilot error. Last week's disaster left Northrop with only one prototype. Still, Chairman Thomas V. Jones vowed to renew his efforts to sell the aircraft...
...Westheimer, he meets Weaver instead, and the pair fall madly in love. "It's very difficult to confuse Sigourney with Dr. Ruth," shrugs the French leading man. "But I manage to do it." There, there, Gerard; of all people, Dr. Ruth would understand the urge behind such an error...
FOOTNOTE: *The pollster interviewed 1,000 registered voters between April 30 and May 2. The potential sampling error is plus or minus 3%. When compared with the results of previous polls, the potential sampling error is plus or minus...
...advances in logic, political theory and the philosophy of science, Adler argues that, except for Aquinas' massive Summa Theologiae, barely an ethical or metaphysical yard has been gained in all the centuries since Aristotle. He is particularly hard on the empiricists, notably Locke. According to Adler, Locke's worst error was to posit that ideas are what each individual consciously experiences and since different individuals' experiences inevitably vary, ideas also vary. Adler finds such notions "repugnant to reason." He calls up the Thomistic view, derived from Aristotle, that ideas are the basic concepts, the universal truths by which we understand...
...memoir starts with a profound error: "In the beginning," writes Gloria Vanderbilt, "a child believes that all other children are in the same world that she or he inhabits. That is how a poor child defines all others, and that is how a rich child defines all others...