Word: glitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year Glitch...
...Social Security Administration today announced plans to reimburse hundreds of thousands of elderly Americans whose benefits were short an annual average of about $100. The agency recently discovered the mistake -- attributed to a computer glitch dating back 16 years -- in its computer software and is in the process of identifying 426,000 senior citizens whose retirement checks were short an average of $10 a month, some for up to a decade, the Associated Press reports. Social Security officials say they'll notify and repay all those shortchanged, payments that could total $478.5 million. The agency will pay survivors and estates...
Uncle Sam's Computer Glitch...
...Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City, Utah, biotech firm. A majority of cancer cells, they found, lack functioning copies of a gene that serves as a circuit breaker and shuts down the abnormal cell growth that causes malignancy. Already Kamb is dreaming up ways to fix this seemingly simple glitch. "The route to therapy," he says, "seems surprisingly clear...
Another potential glitch in calendar reform is the students, who might not be willing to compromise. In order to move exams to December, several things would have to change. First, the school year would need to begin at the end of August or right after Labor Day. Second, the University might stop observing some one-day holidays, such as Columbus Day. Finally, reading period would have to be somewhat shortened...