Word: incorrect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes, he said, because of poor public health regulation, travelers are given incorrect doses of antibiotics. Improper doses are dangerous when they reduce the normal levels of bacteria in the body, which allows other bacteria to reproduce and cause harm...
...Numbers feature [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 22], we incorrectly stated the revised height of Mount Everest. The correct figure is 29,035 ft. And since we got that figure wrong, the following number of how many Bill Bradleys it would take to top the new Everest was incorrect too. The right figure is 4,525. Also, we erred in our statement that 100 shares owned by the average hourly UPS worker would be worth $68,000 after trading on the first day the stock was available on the market. The correct value...
...normal humans, if any, are in fact fundamentally unfit. Rather, most of us saunter between states of competency and the incorrect degree of qualification. But most importantly, we are all qualified to some degree (even if it be the bare minimum) and have the ability and potential to further that qualification...
...sense trouble when Shemmer checks his overnight voice mail. There's a message from one of his superiors, and he sounds "mildly pissed." Apparently a report that Shemmer sent over yesterday contained a single incorrect figure about revenue growth, the result of a minor mathematical error. ("Banking is like that--we're detail, detail, detail oriented," Shemmer explains. "No spelling errors, no errors in numbers. It has to look professional.") Shemmer dials the boss on speakerphone. "Dino, babe," says the senior staffer caustically. Without a beat, Shemmer explains the error and tells him it's been corrected. "I apologize...
...political correctness--the high school administration was eager to appease the anger of a group of minority students and so just cancelled the play out of hand. That may be part of it, but the larger answer is that everyone involved in this controversy is suffering an overdose of incorrect assumptions...