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A NYT "Week in Review" piece takes on the First Golfer's notorious habit of hitting "mulligans," or spontaneous "do-overs," after flubbed strokes: "Mr. Clinton, after all, claimed that he did not inhale, and that he did not have sexual relations with that woman.
This adjustment conservatively assumed that 10% of strokes were nonhospital strokes.
Table 1uses the ICD-9 code-specific pooled PPVs [ 8] to adjust for false positives and reports that there were 712,000 (682,000) hospital strokes in the United States, with a 95% confidence interval of 688,000 (660,000) to 737,000 (704,000).
In fact he renders his message in such appealing, facile strokes that one wants to believe he just panicked after the success of High Fidelity and turned out a callow rush job.
Lawrie, ranked 159 th in the world, began the final round 10 strokes back but advanced to a three-way playoff when tournament leader Jean Van de Velde choked away a three-stroke lead on the final hole.