Word: misreads
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...Minutes of classes at the Extension School cancelled due to the hellacious wrath of Mother Nature. 60: Minutes of Leo Damrosch’s undergraduate class, English 185: “Wit and Humor,” that were cancelled when Damrosch misread a sign that announced the cancellation of Extension School classes...
Insider activity may offer buy and sell signals on individual stocks, though investors should never follow insiders blindly. Sometimes executives buy just because they want to get Wall Street's attention or they misread the market. They also tend to act far in advance of expected news, in part to avoid the appearance of illegal insider trading. So patience is key. New research by Bin Ke and Steven Huddart of Pennsylvania State University and Kathy Petroni of Michigan State suggests that insider activity precedes specific company news by three to nine quarters. The current buying, then, may preface gains that...
...like overkill. Gore Vidal, however, might be pleased to know that the editors have seen fit to knock four years off his age (he was born in 1925, not 1929). They also have Wilson referring to Ulysses S. Grant's "Personal Memoirs" under the title "Personal Veracity." Did they misread Wilson's notoriously crabby handwriting (the earlier collection quotes it accurately)? Or was it a Freudian slip on Wilson's part? Either way the mistake goes, literally, unnoted. The amazing thing is that, in spite of the efforts of the editors to get in the way of the readability...
...airport. Mitch Greenberg, a former paramedic, was the man in the hot seat one recent Sunday, scanning the screens and barking into a microphone to deal with each security infraction--such as a pilot's setting off an alarm at a secure door when his ID badge is misread. For major incidents--big weather problems as well as security breaches--the action shifts to the room next door, where a SWAT team of airport personnel are summoned around a circular conference table whose centerpiece pops up at the push of a button to give each participant a phone and computer...
...threat of terrorism makes everyone nervous, but some anxious readers misread our cover headline "Will His Plan Make Us Safer?", on the President's proposal. "I scanned the cover too quickly and erroneously thought it said, "Will His Plan Make Us Suffer?", stated a man from Spokane, Wash. "And after reading the article, I'm not so sure that wasn't the proper question to ask." A Las Vegas woman had a similar experience: "When I got my issue from the mailbox, the headline was partly covered by other mail, and I thought the word safer was suffer. I think...