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08 September 2012 a Map That Accompanied Yesterday's Report On 08 September 2012 In a brief Tuesday about ongoing The patent covers a method of the company reported in 2011 relative A map that accompanied yesterday’s violence surrounding illegal strikes distinguishing between one-fingered to that of Colombia’s state-run oil report on separatist or independence in South Africa, the Associated Press scrolling on a touch-screen device and company, Ecopetrol. Petróleos de movements in Africa mistakenly erroneously reported that police and two-fingered gestures like pinching Venezuela reported a 2011 accident showed the same text for Morocco and security guards fired rubber bullets to zoom out of an image. It does not rate several times greater than Libya. The entry for Libya should have and tear gas at sacked gold miners at a cover the pinch-to-zoom feature Ecopetrol’s, not nine times greater. said that there are calls for autonomy Gold Fields mine. The clash took place itself. The error was repeated in an for the eastern province of Cyrenaica, at Gold One International’s mine. Gold article on Monday about the case’s An article on Monday about Mitt neglected by Tripoli. Fields spokesman Sven Lunsche said effect on innovations in technology Romney’s style of campaigning an ongoing strike of 12,000 workers at and it appeared again on Tuesday in misstated the amount of power used An article on Friday about a tentative Gold Fields has been peaceful with no an article about the possibility the by floodlights at a campaign rally in deal by Japan to buy three uninhabited clashes. decision could move Apple closer to a Hobbs, N.M. They were 18,000-watt islands that are part of a chain at the fight with Google. floodlights, not 18,000-kilowatt. center of a heated territorial dispute 04 September 2012 with China misstated the year the Pakistani High Commissioner to 31 August 2012 An article on Tuesday about United States, which seized the islands Malaysia Masood Khalid has clarified A comment piece on the nature Congressional efforts to limit military in World War II, returned them, along that Bina Puri Sdn Bhd is carrying out of political speeches ahead of the spending on biofuels misstated with Okinawa, to the Japanese. It was a RM846 million road project between forthcoming party conference season the percentage of the Defense 1972, not 1971. Karachi and Hyderabad in Pakistan. misdated a speech in which Goebbels Department’s budget for improving It had been inadvertently stated in our exhorted German citizens to summon energy use in field operations that 07 September 2012 report headlined “Pakistan projects up their last energies for “total war”. It the Pentagon is seeking to spend on An article on Thursday about farmers in the offing” last Thursday that the was made in 1943, not 1945. biofuels in the next fiscal year. It is who are being pitted against oil and project linked Karachi with Hyderabad almost seven percent, or $107 million gas interests in a race for water in in India. A report on the sentencing of Anders of the $1.6 billion budget request – not drought-stricken areas misstated the Behring Breivik after his trial for four percent. number of gallons of water the city of An article on Saturday about the killing of 77 people in July Greeley, Colorado, will rent to energy Republican lawmakers and candidates 2011 wrongly referred to the judge 29 August 2012 companies this year. It is on pace to who are distancing themselves from Arne Lyng as “she”. Lyng is a man. An article on Tuesday about Mitt rent 586 million gallons of water, not Representative Paul D. Ryan’s budget The same mistake was made when Romney’s views on economic policy 58 million gallons. plan misstated the age at which referring to the Swedish politician misstated the title of a book he wrote recipients would be affected by his Ali Esbati in the online version of the outlining his vision for the country. It We overstated the unemployment rate Medicare proposal. It is for people article. is No Apology, not No Apologies. in Greece in saying it had “soared currently under 55, not 55 or younger. to around thirty percent” (Eurozone An article about the Saltire prize An article on Thursday about efforts demands six-day week for Greeks, 5 A map on Sunday with the challenge, the renewable energy to preserve the traditional sound of a September, page 23). The latest official continuation of an article about the competition launched in Orkney this caste of hereditary Muslim musicians rate, for June, issued by the Hellenic hurricane-battered Plaquemines Parish week, said estimates suggest that tidal in India misstated the distance Statistical Authority this week, is 24.4 on the southeastern tip of Louisiana and wave power around the Scottish between two villages, Raneri and percent. located Venice incorrectly. The town islands could generate 38,500 gigawatt Hamira. It is about 100 miles, not 200. is on the west bank of the parish, not hours a year, equivalent to three coal- A Sept. 2 Page One article about on the east bank. fired power stations as large as Drax in In the report ‘GM seeds banned after the troubles of the Italian banking North Yorkshire. The potential output “failures”’ (August 20), we said that industry incorrectly described the The General Motors plant in from tidal, wave and wind machines the government of the Indian state European Central Bank’s policy on Janesville, Wis., which was mentioned for the area is 38,500 gigawatt hours a of Maharashtra had withdrawn the accepting Italian government bonds by vice presidential candidate Paul year. It is the nominal capacity of these licence of Mahyco Monsanto Biotech as collateral. Many private lenders, Ryan in a speech at the Republican machines, 11 gigawatts, that equals (MMB). This withdrawal has in fact but not the ECB, have refused to take National Convention last week, three times that of a power station affected Mahyco Ltd, a different legal Italian bonds as collateral, thus driving stopped production of GM sport-utility such as Drax. entity, in which Monsanto is a 26 per up funding costs for Italian banks and vehicles and laid off about 1,100 of its cent minority shareholder. weakening their financial positions. 1,200 workers on Dec. 23, 2008. About The Affile Journal article on 110 workers continued reporting for Wednesday, about the fascist 28 August 2012 6 September 2012 work after that date to fill an order for sympathies of a village east of Rome A news story on Monday about gun An article on Monday about the a number of medium-duty commercial that were highlighted recently with purchases was unclear on a legal issue free-speech advocacy of Alexander trucks that GM assembled for Isuzu the unveiling of a memorial to one surrounding “straw purchasing,” Macgillivray, Twitter’s top lawyer, Motors. Assembly of the Isuzu trucks of Affile’s most controversial former in which a person buys a gun for misstated the response of Google, stopped in April, 2009. A Convention citizens, Rudolfo Graziani, a general someone prohibited from possessing another technology company wrestling Journal article Friday about the under Mussolini whose nickname one. If a person states during a gun globally with the concept of free controversy over whether Mr. Ryan “the Butcher” was earned during purchase that he is the “actual buyer” expression, to the theft in China of implied President Obama was to blame Italy’s colonization of North Africa, but is not, that person has acted proprietary code that was used to hack for the closing incorrectly said the misidentified the year in which Italy illegally. into Gmail accounts of human rights plant was closed Dec. 23, 2008. invaded Libya and misidentified activists. Google redirected Chinese- the Italian leader at the time. The An article on Aug. 16 about Hezbollah, language search requests to its Hong Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang first invasion occurred in 1911, not the militant Lebanese Shiite political Kong site after the 2010 hacking; Nguema Mbasogo is the longest- 1921. And Italy’s prime minister was organization that is considered a it did not withdraw from China. serving leader in Africa. A World Giovanni Giolitti – not Mussolini, who terrorist group by the United States (Engineering, advertising and other News article Thursday about political assumed power in 1922. The article and Israel, quoted incorrectly from operations remain there.) protests in Africa incorrectly said also referred imprecisely to the Italian a statement by Hassan Nasrallah, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe is invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. It was the the group’s secretary general, about United Nations Secretary-General Ban the longest-serving leader on the first successful invasion of Ethiopia, the adverse effect that a similar Ki-moon criticized Iran’s policy on continent. (World News: Youth not the first. (The first Ethiopian blacklisting by European countries Israel at an international conference, Protests Shake Politics Across Africa) invasion, in 1895, failed.) would have on Hezbollah. Mr. while Egyptian President Mohammed Nasrallah said, according to a BBC Morsi criticized Iran’s policy toward 03 September 2012 A headline on Thursday about Monitoring Service transcript, that it Syria. A World-Wide item on Friday In the next five years English farmland banks’ progress in providing relief to “would dry up the sources of finance, incorrectly said that Mr. Morsi is expected to rise in value by more homeowners as part of a settlement end moral, political and material criticized Iran’s policy on Israel. than a third, not by more than two- for foreclosure abuses described the support, stifle voices, whether they thirds as an editing error led an beneficiaries incorrectly in some are the voices of the resistance or the Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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