Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hartman, then, nothing is more destructive to human growth than the + mistaken belief that if a people does not have everything (i.e., all the land), it has nothing. The issue for him is whether Jews can say grace without being totally satisfied. Even more important, the question is whether religious loyalty requires believing that there is only one way. Or does Judaism affirm that no human community has access to the total truth? In responding to these questions, says Hartman, "the most profound Jewish values are at stake. Israel cannot claim the allegiance of Jews everywhere if the spiritual content...
Suddenly, the credit-travel enticement had turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare of mistaken identities, computer screw-ups and human errors, all spilling out of the vast and powerful credit-reporting system that tries to keep tabs on $720 billion in total U.S. consumer debt. But this was not just one person's bad dream. While the credit industry claims that errors are discovered in fewer than 0.5% of individual credit records, some analysts believe glitches are more common. According to a study by James Williams of Consolidated Information Services, a New Jersey credit bureau, 40% of the 150 million people...
...Mistaken identity is not the only brand of credit nightmare. Other glitches include out-of-date information, as when loan payments have been made but not yet recorded, and erroneous or inaccurate information supplied by creditors or consumers. Student-loan providers are notorious for incorrectly reporting that people have missed payments...
...HRDC was under the mistaken impression that The Crimson was bound by its decision six years ago not to review Ex shows. Crimson policy, however, is the responsibility of each year's Crimson executives. As a result of the confusion, HRDC promised its directors that their shows would not be reviewed. After the first Ex review was printed on March 2, many of those directors felt HRDC had violated a contractual agreement. But HRDC--like The Crimson--did not violate any binding contractual agreement, because none existed...
...many American Jews lambast Israel in the press, you would think their sense of outrage springs from an Israeli betrayal of Jewish or Zionist ideals. That such a perception is mistaken becomes obvious after even the most cursory study of Jewish history...