The IRS is also working to identify tax return preparers who make repeated errors.

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Yet the repeated errors in computer procurement suggest that its reports do not always secure change.

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The announcement was criticised as being badly handled with repeated errors on published lists of projects affected and Mr Gove later apologised in the House of Commons.

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At Wembley Arena, fans jeered as the women's doubles match between China's Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli and South Koreans Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na saw repeated errors.

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Once a person learns their job well, managers want to make sure that job is repeated without errors, over and over again.

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British officers are less impressed, saying their predecessors often repeated their errors.

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Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

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