She made one error, cutting off the call briefly by hitting a wrong button, but this might have been because it was a test in which I was at one point using a phone also listed for my wife as a contact.
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Make one little error in that little 8 yard by 8 foot situation and it's a catastrophe, he suffers from that...
One small error, such as listing the name of a former employer after the years worked there, instead of before, can ruin a great candidate's chances.
The decision to compete in the Iowa caucuses -- despite a cautionary internal memo counseling her to skip the contest -- may have been one fatal error.
The Danish world number one broke her error-prone Russian opponent three times in each set to triumph 6-1 6-2.
And just one oversight or error has the capacity to destroy a host city's reputation and damage a country's image.
And if a broad range of commodities are rising, far from signaling strong demand, the true signal is one of monetary error.
And, of course, Google is moving quickly forward with road-worthy autocars that have accumulated 300, 000 miles with only one (human error) accident.
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Assuming the feds had done right and let AIG go under (its error one of failing to hedge its exposure to CDSs), those in need of credit default insurance could have simply taken their business to other financial companies ready and willing to provide what AIG no longer could.
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But after making both the newspaper and pillow requests, we received two messages in our Conrad Concierge app mailbox: One flagged an error with our request, and another said our request had been submitted. (We decided to be optimistic.) You can also request to have a text-message confirmation sent to your phone, too.
Gymnastics scrapped its perfect-10 high score in 2006, replacing it with one that was supposed to remove some human error by instituting one score for the difficulty achieving certain moves, alongside a second, more subjective score for execution.
So if there's an error on one device or app, there's a good chance others will have the same error.
And I'm certain that Mr. Sensenbrenner would not intentionally mislead the Senate, that his error is one of inadvertence.
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Researchers have already become much better at understanding how the structure of new nano-engineered materials will behave, although the process remains largely one of trial and error because different samples have to be repeatedly manufactured and tested.
What Rose had put her finger on, by trial and error, was one of the great shortcomings of formal higher education.
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Having said that, one must realize that human error is inevitable.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said it was "unacceptably poor practice" for even one paper to contain an error, and that hard-working pupils had been let down.
Central European growth may be the selling point of the merger, but in old, western European banking it is little more than a rounding error, says one consultant, rather dismissively.
Remarkably, the nurses and doctors were observed to make an error in just one per cent of these actions but that still amounted to an average of two errors a day with every patient.
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, the economists behind the original research, said in a statement: "It is sobering that such an error slipped into one of our papers despite our best efforts to be consistently careful, " but they added that the "central message" of their research was still valid.
One of course is simple data error, though after revisions this is mostly small.
The FTC study found that 26% of consumers had a material error on at least one of their three credit reports.
An error may occur in one statement and, if unnoticed, be repeated.
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The real problem is that the current mindset surrounding human error seems to be one of retroactive fire drills rather than proactive prevention.
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Then in 1656, Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens made the first working pendulum clock, accurate to an error of less than one minute per day.
Finding out who is inherently going to stab you as opposed to shake your hand is usually a trial-and-error proposition, but one that can quickly be spun to your advantage.
"Although the error may have been one which many might make, it amounted to a significant failure to keep a proper lookout and to manage the car correctly, " Lord Justice Hughes said.
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