So do several small errors that should have been picked up by a more careful publisher.

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Even small errors can mean unaffordable premiums for policyholders.

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The American system of trial and error produces doers: Black Swan-hunting, dream-chasing entrepreneurs, with a tolerance for a certain class of risk-taking and for making plenty of small errors on the road to success or knowledge.

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There are also a few small errors.

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They take place each year because counties are fixing small tabulation errors made when adding up precinct totals on election night, as well as mistakes made in the reporting of those totals to the secretary of state's office.

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What you want to see is an asymmetry between gains (preferably large) versus the errors that emerge (hopefully small).

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Errors are probably more prevalent in small plans, which lack access to software and consulting services necessary to ensure accurate records.

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Its mission is to ferret out the myriad overcharging errors that banks continue to inflict on small businesses.

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Yet still people and small businesses that purchase software nowadays run into bugs, down services, connection errors, poor quality and other productivity killers.

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While a small number of borrowers nationwide have been foreclosed upon in error, the vast majority of paperwork errors occur in cases where the borrower has defaulted and essentially abandoned any claim to the property.

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