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Convinced that his methods were valid for political choices as well, Gallup boldly predicted in 1936 that the then dominant poll would be wrong in predicting victory for Republican Landon over Incumbent Roosevelt. Though Gallup would sometimes err, notably in 1948, when he picked Dewey over Truman, the weekly polls of his American Institute of Public Opinion and its imitators have put politicians and others in instantaneous, generally reliable contact with the public pulse and have permanently altered the conduct and the outcome of U.S. marketing and electioneering strategy...
Even so, many physicians prefer to err on the side of caution. "No one knows the risk factors," says Dr. Jokichi Takamine, chairman of the American Medical Association's task force on alcoholism. He believes that pregnant women should abstain completely. Atlanta Obstetrician Donald Block, for one, is delighted with the idea of the warning signs. He says, "Now when I tell pregnant women not to drink, they are prepared...
Saying that it is better to "err on the side of caution," New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean last week ordered all boxes of Duncan Hines Deluxe Devil's Food Cake Mix bearing lot number 3116C2A removed from grocery-store shelves throughout his state. Kean's move came just 24 hours after New Jersey health officials found that a box from lot 3116C2A contained 470 parts per billion of the cancer-causing pesticide EDB, roughly three times the recommended federal limit. The Governor urged consumers who found boxes at home bearing the suspect number to "return them...
Those who reject capitalism often err in discarding insights of its theory, and in this case social critics mistakenly ignore the simple fact that people act largely out of self-interest. It is not more true today than 20 years ago. It is not too surprisingly, the guiding principle for almost every individual in almost everything he does. One can disdainfully declare this sinful, but that won't change human nature. Or one can apply this economic calculus to understand why so many of us want to work for Ropes and Gray, and so few of us will consider Boston...
...case, experience teaches that forgiveness runs somewhat against human nature. The corollary of "To err is human, to forgive divine" is that to forgive is not human, not entirely so. To forget is human, and that eventual fading of a grievance from memory, not direct forgiveness, is quite often the solution...