Word: typos
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...facility with patterns and order led her to create--and be ruled by--her own obsessive systems. Jessy's calculations based on the weather and the phases of the moon, for example, long dictated precisely how much juice she poured into her glass at dinner. And the word typo inspired her to invent a vocabulary for other errors: speako, cooko, bake-o, painto...
...businessman. But his secret came out when he ran for the Scottsdale city council last year, and he went to federal prison. His successful pardon application drew support from several Senators. But in Clinton's haste to process so many pleas, he signed a pardon letter that contained a typo and ended up clearing Mechanic of the wrong charge...
...unfortunate typo in a Reuters report at the weekend may hint at the Bush administration?s troubles in selling America?s allies on missile defense. "A system of defense need not be perfect," the wire service quoted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as telling European security chiefs gathered in Germany. "But the American people must not be left completely senseless...
...eyes of some, athletes have always been paid too much. This view was given new currency when the Seattle Mariners' free-agent shortstop, Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez, last week signed a 10-year contract with the Texas Rangers for (no typo) $252 million. Is A-Rod's windfall really news? Toward the end of the 19th century, the boxer John L. Sullivan earned four times as much as the President, and Sully's contemporary Mike ("King") Kelly, baseball's first transcendent star, was able to underwrite a flashy lifestyle with what bleacher bums saw as an oversize paycheck. Joe DiMaggio...
There was only one problem. Netline Communications, the Israeli company that makes the C-Guard, neglected to include a battery pack. So I called Gil Israeli (that's his name, not a typo), the CEO who co-founded the company, and explained my predicament. He was not amused. In fact, he refused to send me a battery pack. "These devices are intended for indoor, private use," he said, noting that theater and restaurant owners fell into this category. "We don't claim they should be used outside, in public, to interfere with legitimate people using cell phones...