Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regrettable truth to the remarks made by Peter Teeley, press secretary to Vice President George Bush, after his man debated Mondale Running Mate Geraldine Ferraro. Said Teeley: "You can say anything you want during a debate, and 80 million people hear it." If the press then points out an error, Teeley continued, "so what? Maybe 200 people read it, or 2,000 or 20,000." (Teeley hastened to add that Bush has not "purposely used misleading or incorrect figures...
...delegate to computers the decision as to whether to start a war." Defense experts contend that a Star Wars defense would rely no more heavily on computers to give warning of an impending missile attack than present deterrent strategy does. The greatest danger of nuclear devastation because of computer error would arise if false signals tempted a President to order not the use of defensive weapons but a retaliatory nuclear strike...
...before the election, the race is a tossup, with Helms showing a slight, statistically insignificant lead. Even in Wilson, the governor's home county in eastern North Carolina, a local newpaper poll shows Helms leading Hunt, 46 to 42 percent. But the poll's 4.5 percent margin of error makes the race a dead heat...
...most common error is reporting a comet cited near a planet which is usually just a "ghost image" of the bright object, he explains...
...PRINCETON (235) 60.0 32.8 7.2 YALE (142) 59.5 29.1 11.4 TOTAL (1626) 53.3 34.0 12.7 Other includes preferences for non-major party candidates, not voting, and no answer. Figures in parentheses are number polled at each school. Poll conducted between October 9 and 12. Margin of error is plus/minus 5 percent...