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At this point in the press briefing, FHA Commissioner Stevens commented, "The biggest mistake would be to over-correct." He added that FHA is asking questions such as whether loan-to-value (LTV) ratio alone causes default.

"When they start talking about fewer athletes and fewer rounds, my immediate reaction is, `Whoa, let's not over-correct here.' There are very specific things you can point to when coming up with reasons why we didn't win medals, but it's not always as easy as the Trials are too hard on our athletes.

"The challenge is not to do anything foolish," he added, appealing for the Democrat-controlled US Congress not to take measures that would over-correct the economy or lead to protectionism.

Hudson swerved back onto the correct side just in time to avoid a head-on crash with an oncoming Mercedes, only to over-correct and hit the nearside kerb and lose control.

If the legislative elections of December 1993 are any guide, Yeltsin will over-correct. He will underestimate the inertial power of a big bloc of locally elected independent candidates, who will outnumber those from any particular party and have an interest in the status quo.

(I noted earlier that during the 1930s alone the membership of the Palo Alto theater group grew six-fold.) Consequently, dividing the number of events by population would over-correct, underestimating the "true" growth in participation.