Though such errors are inevitable, there may be a way to let speech-recognition programs take the pain out of making corrections.

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As anyone who has seen the incredible movie Apollo 13 knows, one of the biggest challenges of the mission was making course corrections.

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Replacing Dennis Blair and John Brennan with individuals who actually comprehend the dangers we are facing and are capable of devising strategies for countering them would be important first steps towards making possible the sort of course corrections that are so urgently needed.

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As such, there is no reason not to be bullish now, even with the probabilities of corrections and pull backs along the way making the route a little bit too exciting.

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The pattern has been clearly reflected in the stock market, which saw its historical pattern of making its gains in the winter months and suffering corrections in the summer months even more pronounced in 2010 and 2011.

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But while the bulls are making their last run, it is important to recognize that corrections tend to be shallow.

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The first are undervalued, affordable markets like Fort Worth, Texas, which haven't felt huge, post-boom price corrections, but where there is an expected acceleration in sales volume, making now the time to buy.

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After all, the four-year presidential cycle has an unusually consistent pattern of the market experiencing most of its serious corrections in the first two years of a presidential term and most often making a substantial recovery in the last two years.

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