But it may be a mistake to allow the model's predictions to interfere too much with the creative process: many filmgoers feel that Hollywood movies are formulaic enough as it is.

ECONOMIST: Film economics

But perhaps America's bigger mistake was to allow Mr Aristide's untrammelled rule to last as long as it did.

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Parish councillor Martin Usherwood, from the Ford Action Group Against Wind Turbines, said it would have been a "major mistake" to allow the application to go through.

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It probably is still a bit too cheap, and it would certainly be a mistake for Beijing to allow it to fall, not least because this would risk a protectionist backlash from abroad.

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Big mistake as prices will become artificial and allow inefficient operators to stay in place so short changing the human race in the medium to long term.

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But, please, allow me to say that if this kind of mistake was to be revealed in any company, and if the people who made the mistake came forth and admitted it, the company would have at least reimbursed the client and would have fired the employees who made the mistake.

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So make no mistake, we have a strategy that will allow us to responsibly wind down this war.

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To "allow other people's assessment of you to determine your own self-assessment is a very big mistake, " says Mr. Bollinger, a First Amendment author and scholar.

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