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...Force $16 for a turbine air seal on engines that power the F-111 fighter in 1981; a year later it priced the same part at $3,033.82-an increase of 1,886% at a time when inflation was running at 8.9%. The firm's explanation: its own clerk had listed the 1981 price too low. A part used in mounting engines in C-141 transports and B-52H bombers rose in price from $77.28 to $1,016.70, an increase of 1,215%. Reason: again, clerical error. A major component of the engine for the F-14A fighter zoomed...
When students make sudden cancellations or reservations, the clerk often cannot contact the driver. This major problem stems from the communication system between the clerk, who receives students' calls, and the driver. Rather than communicating directly, the clerk can contact the central dispatcher who gives the driver a message to telephone the clerk. The driver must then wait until (s)he has time between runs to find a phone, by which time the reservation may have been long passed. This also compounds the problem of garbled information. The result of these "bugs in the system" is that students with disabilities...
Edward J. Sullivan, Clerk of Middlesex County Courts and former Cambridge Mayor, recalls: "[Kennedy] had a good memory. No matter where he ran into you, he knew who you were. One time when he was President, I was having a gallbladder operation, and a friend of mine told one of his aides, and when I saw him three months later, the first thing he asked was, 'How do you feel after your operation...
About 350 students, professors, and parents rose and fell silent last night as a court clerk bellowed: "The Supreme Court of the United States is now in session...
...boxes from 15 precincts inexplicably disappeared. Elsewhere, when voting machines malfunctioned, the official explanation was that rain and dampness had moistened the ballots, requiring them to be dried out in ovens in Evanston, just north of the city. ("There's no allegation of impropriety here," insisted Cook County Clerk Stanley Kusper Jr. "We've just got a lot of wet ballots.") The count began in earnest on Wednesday, the day, as wags point out, when the real politicking traditionally begins in Chicago. Before anyone could say Richard Daley, the city election board announced it was being hampered...