rigor/vigor confusion

[Erik Hoover]

For the purposes of cutting and pasting, I ganked my quote from the
Wall Street Journal online edition.
I have not seen an official copy of the panel decision.

Erik

On Sep 20, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

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> I heard the report too, but I thought the phrase was just NPR's
> usual inept
> reporter's goof.  Was this an actual quote from the panel's
> report?  If so,
> the spelling of the noun "practises" is also interesting.  Were the
> panel
> members L2 speaker/writers?
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> At 09:28 PM 9/20/2007, you wrote:
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>> Cyclist Floyd Landis, accused of doping violations in the 2005 Tour
>> de France, received bad news today from an arbitration panel.  So it
>> goes.
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>> What I found interesting was the apparent error in this phrase from
>> the ruling:
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>> "The Panel finds that the practises of the Lab in training its
>> employees appears to lack the vigor the Panel would expect in the
>> circumstances given the enormous consequences to athletes..."
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>> Oops?
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