Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working for him as he faced a preliminary inquiry of the Senate Ethics Committee into his wife's financial dealings with a Greek businessman. One was the Oregon Republican's long reputation for integrity. The other was Hatfield's admission that he had made a serious error of judgment in helping to promote Entrepreneur Basil Tsakos' planned $6 billion oil pipeline in Central Africa...
...Francisco Girls and Boys Chorus sang America the Beautiful, This Land Is Your Land, while the delegate horde turned the convention floor into a blur of red, white and blue. Convention Guest Mark Green, co-author of There He Goes Again: Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error, confessed to an awkward moment: "At first I didn't want to wave a flag. But on the last night of the convention I was waving two of them." The party was demonstrating to itself and to the public that Democrats were no longer embarrassed by corny displays of national zeal...
...send his balloons about 140,000 feet up and then drop packages of measuring instruments by parachute, allowing them to take readings of the chemical composition in the air as they hurtled back to earth. Anderson says that although the experiments yielded useful information, the results were prone to error and difficult to test for accuracy since each experiment was a one-shot deal...
...only authoritative investigation into the disaster was that conducted by the International Civil Aviation Organization. It concluded that there was no evidence of the airliner being on an intelligence mission. It said that the 007 crew could have flown unknowingly off course either by committing a 10° error in programming its inertial navigation system or by erroneously setting the Boeing 747 on a steady magnetic compass heading of 246° (an investigative series in London's Sunday Times showed how this could happen if a switch were left in the wrong position, disengaging the inertial navigation system...
...moralizing judgments and a squeamish avoidance of controversial details. "It's a legal, moral and social nightmare," says Doris J. Freed, head of the American Bar Association's family-law section committee on research. "It's going to take years of debate, legislation, trial and error to figure out how to deal with these problems." Or, as Samuel Gorovitz, a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, summarized it for the House subcommittee chaired by Congressman Albert Gore Jr., "We have a patchwork of laws and gaps, stigmas, deprivations, uncertainties, confusions and fears...