The Wall Street Journal-20080214-Corrections - Amplifications
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Corrections & Amplifications
Full Text (361 words)The Web site RealClearPolitics.com as of Monday calculated that Barack Obama had 1,143 delegate votes to Hillary Clinton's 1,138 votes. In an article Tuesday about the race for the Democratic presidential nomination the numbers were reversed, incorrectly suggesting that Mrs. Clinton was ahead.
(See: "Campaign '08: Caucus System Muddies Assessment of Democrats ---Shift of a Few Delegates Could Be Key This Year; Politics Is Indeed Local" -- WSJ Feb. 12, 2008)
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Only registered Republicans may vote in California's Republican presidential primary. A graphic Feb. 6 that outlined Super Tuesday contests incorrectly listed the Republican contest as an open primary.
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John White, the Securities and Exchange Commission corporation- finance division director, was referring to the agency's push to use technology that would "tag" corporate financial data when he said, "I think we could move more quickly and may do so." In a Politics & Economics article Tuesday, the placement of the quote in the article implied he was referring to a wider range of SEC proposals.
(See: "Politics & Economics: SEC Urged to Ease Push to 'Tag' Corporate Fiscal Data" -- WSJ Feb. 12, 2008)
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Auctions of $3 billion of securities tied to student loans that failed to attract buyers occurred last week and Monday of this week. The markets roundup on yesterday's Money & Investing page incorrectly said the auctions were Monday of last week.
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Microsoft Corp.'s shares fell 12.4% from Jan. 31 through Friday. A graphic that accompanied Saturday's Breakingviews column incorrectly said that the decline was 6.2%.
(See: "breakingviews.com / Financial Insight: Chicken Little Investors? --- Microsoft Shareholders Could Have Overreacted To Titan's Offer for Yahoo" -- WSJ Feb. 9, 2008)
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Pfizer Inc. says that the extensive clinical trial data on its best- selling cholesterol drug Lipitor "do not establish a causal link between Lipitor and memory loss." Due to a typographical error, Tuesday's Health Journal column used the word casual instead of causal.
(See: "HEALTH JOURNAL: Can a Drug That Helps Hearts Be Harmful to the Brain?" -- WSJ Feb. 12, 2008)
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