Word: incorrectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This transatlantic furor was set off last week by an incorrect front page report in the New York Times that Jimmy Carter had decided against production of the neutron bomb. For months U.S. diplomats had been trying to win NATO nations' support for the bomb on the ground that its lethal radiation would offset the Soviet Union's 3-to-l superiority in tanks in Central Europe. Now Carter seemed to have changed his mind despite the recommendations of his chief advisers on defense and diplomacy. All week long U.S. officials kept denying the Times report, insisting that...
...view of Dean Jewett's seeming reluctance to discuss areas in which the students are not functioning well and his apparently more favorable impression of the student recruitment program, it would be incorrect to equate Young's willingness to recognize the students' shortcomings and his efforts to improve their performance with an overall approach on the part of the Admissions Office...
...event, I told him that his Harvard pick notwithstanding, there was little chance of him going even 3-1, as one of his selections, Penn over Princeton, differed from mine, and would thus be incorrect...
Cost The critics' claim that the volunteer military is responsible for the soaring costs of defense manpower is "plainly incorrect," says Cooper. Thus far, he reports, "the volunteer force has added less than $300 million to the budget cost of defense manpower-about two-tenths of 1% of the defense budget." While spending for defense personnel did rise from about $22 billion in 1964 to more than $50 billion in 1976, in part because of the higher pay scale, the primary cause was the higher cost of civilian defense employees and a military retirement system enacted...
...fired as general commercial manager for the San Antonio office of Southwestern Bell a few days after Gravitt's death. The widow claims that the company hounded her husband to suicide; Ashley maintains that he was fired because he and Gravitt were about to expose the "incorrect, duplicitous, deceitful" methods that Bell had used to get rate increases in Texas...