If you spoke to the reservationist directly, then there is no excuse for this type of an error.

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As the market quickly erased a sizable chunk of the losses explanations began whipping around: some said it was a fat-fingered trade, others blamed the shocking fall on some type of technical error at an exchange.

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In a preliminary study he conducted in 22 post-stroke patients using error-type training, he found 15 consecutive days of intense treatment yielded as much improvement as what patients got from intense conventional treadmill training two to three times a week in 10 or more weeks.

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It is not like people have not tried this type of scheme before, so there were lessons that Skowron could have learned from to prevent this error in judgement.

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