Acrimonious battles have raged for years over the correct monikers for certain shrimp, snails, fruit flies, butterflies and dinosaurs.
Because of this line of reasoning, managers or technical leads sometimes over-correct and attempt to maximize efficiency by staffing single-person projects to reduce the communication overhead down to zero.
More important, it eliminates having to go back and talk about the same things over and over or correct actions taken when we thought we agreed, but just under the surface were miles apart.
But they typically examine shareholder reactions over a few days or weeks and assume the immediate reaction is correct over time, at least on average.
Mr Blair insisted the intelligence that the UK government had received over Iraq was correct.
Most of the revisions to laws made by the Lords are amendments made by the government itself, to correct over-hasty drafting of legislation introduced in the Commons.
So far, Dr Laschi's robot is not so much an octopus as a monopus, but she plans to correct this over the next two years by adding seven more arms and a control system that can co-ordinate them all.
Prior to the system's introduction umpires were getting just over 90% of decisions correct.
Imports are treated as a minus in GDP calculations to correct for the over counting caused by the import content of the other spending categories: consumption, investment, government spending, and even exports.
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Over the longer term, these opinions have been correct as TSGTY has outperformed SPY if you look back over a year.
Still, over the medium term Intel cannot correct America's trade deficit by itself.
The committee's report issued safety recommendations to the airline in order to ensure pilots were trained to follow correct procedure in handing over flight controls during critical moments and times.
Standing with 15, 000 delegates representing green activism groups and politically correct scientists the world over are international celebrity leaders like Nobel Peace Prize laureates Barack Obama, Al Gore and Desmond Tutu and their fellow celebrities and Oscar and Grammy winners Al Gore, Leonardo Dicaprio, Sting, Cate Blanchett and Daryl Hannah.
Why do they assume that the level of spending over the past four decades is also correct for the next four?
However, Mr Tsvangirai told the gathering that the plan to work towards a new constitution and referendum over the next 18 months was the correct one.
Further, note that over variable time scales Simon is still correct: it really is true that new technologies of extraction are developed and these increase supply and push prices down.
It lessens the cloud of uncertainty over other Internet companies and signals the correct way to beat a competitor is by competition in the marketplace, not by hiring armies of lobbyists, lawyers and PR advocates.
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"To be fined in such a way over something that the Commission was so sure was correct, it does risk setting a precedent, and more companies may now challenge the EU's position, " Global Insight's European analyst Rachna Uppal told Forbes.com.
Proving his instinct was correct the replay showed Johnson was a centimetre over the line and Prior was given a reprieve.
To say later baptisms have increased just because people want to get their child into school is not correct, and is at least a vast over-simplification.
"Over the past years, it just wouldn't be correct to say there isn't a proper functioning Cabinet government, " he said.
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And Dr Gold continued to pour out ideas over the years, some of which turned out to be correct and some not.
Jim Kelly has encountered numerous health problems over the past few years, and has had surgery to correct back, neck and hernia problems.
He is said to have listed over 3900 results and theorems, most of which have been proved correct.
In fact, over the years statisticians have come up with increasingly complex procedures to correct for all sorts of potential statistical biases that can occur in research projects of various natures.
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Notably, Comet also proclaimed that it had seen a 7, 000-percent (yes, that's correct) uptick in sales of 50-inch sets over the past two years, and needless to say, that category has become the outfit's fastest growing.
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And if you think this may be an isolated case, one study found that in nearly 15, 000 judgments, when participants believed they were correct 98% of the time, they were wrong over 30% of the time.
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And what we've seen there over the course of these past weeks is that that determination was correct and that we have gotten quite a bit of usable information that has helped across the intelligence community to keep the American people safe.
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If my math is correct, that means deficits averaged almost 2 percent of GDP over that period.
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