Word: glitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center were two hardworking fathers with firm convictions that they willingly put into practice. Both had experienced marital problems; both gave generously of their scarce free time to volunteer work. What separated them -- what kept them apart until it fused them in violence -- was a profound disagreement, a glitch in the moral geography that permits parallel lives not only to meet but to explode...
Take the shuttle service. Now, a service that runs 17 hours a day on weekdays to about 15 areas (scheduled and unscheduled) can't be expected to operate without a glitch...
...evening of Palance's imaginary aerobic progress ("Jack has just bungee-jumped off the HOLLYWOOD sign"). Following a huge production number from the movie Hook with dozens of children suspended from the ceiling, Crystal remarked, "You know, Palance is the father of all those kids." Reacting to the biggest glitch -- when 1920s director Hal Roach, instead of just taking a bow, stood at his seat with no microphone and gave a long, inaudible speech for his Honorary Award for lifetime achievement -- Crystal gracefully joked, "The reason we couldn't hear Mr. Roach is that he is used to working...
...more blacks and Hispanics weren't serving on grand juries in Hartford, Connecticut, they made a surprising discovery. Citizens of Hartford haven't been doing their fair share of grand jury duty for the past three years. Not that they were shirking their civic responsibilities. A computer glitch forced the d at the end of Hartford into the column used for information about prospective federal jurors. The result: 5,500 healthy Hartford citizens were listed as dead. "It's caused us a lot of grief," concedes Kevin Rowe, the clerk of the federal court...
...major glitch is Knowles and the Educational Policy Committee...