Word: errs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Err is Human...
Karpov, the second-youngest world champion ever, is less conservative than he used to be, but still resorts to what one commentator calls "the boa constrictor style," lying in wait for his opponent to err. Spassky describes Karpov as one of a new generation of "realists" in chess: "We followed imagination, often pursuing phantasms, but Karpov will only deal with what is concretely in front...
Your report of our study of Harvard alumni well emphasizes the importance of strenuous exercise to lower risk of heart attack [Dec. 12]. But, alas, you err grievously in adding that smoking, overweight, high blood pressure and family history of heart trouble "did not seem to matter much." Exercise does not abolish the hazards of these adverse characteristics, but reduces heart-attack risk whether they are present or not. Active men who don't smoke cigarettes have one-third the risk of inactive men who smoke. Active normotensive men have one-fourth the risk...
Value Judgments. Ever since, the FDA has preferred to err on the safe side. In the past few years it has restricted the use of hexachlorophene as a disinfectant and banned chloroform for use in cough medicines and sequential-type (imitative of natural hormone cycles) birth control pills. In 1976 the agency took off the market Red Dye No. 2, the most widely used coloring in food and cosmetics. FDA officials conceded that there was no proof that the dye was unsafe but contended that manufacturers could not prove it was safe-even though the substance had been used...
...better to err on the side of free speech." So saying, Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals snatched back $125,002 that Author A.E. Hotchner thought he had won last year in a libel suit. Hotchner, a longtime friend of Ernest Hemingway and writer of the memoir Papa Hemingway, had successfully sued Doubleday & Co. for publishing Spanish Author José Luis Castillo-Puche's opinion in yet another Hemingway memoir that Hotchner was a "toady," a "hypocrite" and an "exploiter" of Hemingway's friendship. But because Hotchner and his lawyers failed...