Word: incorrection
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...Instead of application forms I got an ultimatum from Dean Kilbridge last week that he would make public a two-page statement full of incorrect and value-statements about my qualifications, prepared without asking me any information and even without a complete resume--all of which I offered to supply in an organized way in order to establish orderly uniform faculty hiring procedures...
...widely used symbols are as unequivocal as the hobo markings, however. Some, like the dagger, have multiple meanings. In publishing, the dagger signals a footnote; in biology, it means "obscure species" or "incorrect citation," and in medicine, it symbolizes death. To a farmer, a dot within a semicircle signifies a drinking trough, while to a meteorologist, it means rain that does not reach the earth...
Collins's appeal is based on the technical grounds that he had received incorrect information from his draft board. But more importantly, there is the issue of the residency requirement of members of the draft board. His lawyers claim in their briefs (citing the "lawless board" doctrine found in the Court's ruling in Oestereich v. Selective Service System Local Board), "There should be one law for the governors and the governed, binding both alike. A draft board not constituted in accordance with the statute and regulations is a "Lawless board" without the power to classify...
...wife in opening a Swiss bank account). The other is simply a portrait of the mustachioed billionaire signed "H.R. Hughs." Were the T-shirt journalists guilty of a typo in the misspelling of Hughes' name? Purely intentional, said Manhattan Photographer Bill Stettner, who founded Flame Enterprises; the incorrect spelling was used to avoid any legal action by Hughes...
Herrnstein also maintained that Blu stein's charge about intimidating a section leader "was incorrect in tone and implication." He refused to comment further but said he "would never try to intimidate a teaching fellow...