On Feb 17, 2:12=A0pm, Andrew Schulman <abaca...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 7:44=A0pm, Tommy Grand <howardj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:>
Friends,
>
> > I noticed this sentence on p. 446 of Alan Greenspan's book: "By
> > comparison, oil use in the developing world is too often wasteful by
> > comparison". =A0Obviously the man has poor attention to detail. =A0Was
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> > this sloppy while he was still chairman, or is he merely going senile?
>
> It's funny, I didn't notice the mistake at first glance. =A0But it's his
> editor that is to blame, that is what they are paid to notice.
>
> Andrew
Yes. Probably the editor meant to move the word "comparison" from the
end of the sentence to an earlier position. Then the editor failed to
delete the final "by comparison". And Greenspan probably has better
things to do than picking microscopic nits.
RNJ
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