Word: glitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could not be launched before the end of the decade. Scientists objected that locking many of the instruments aboard just two craft would make the program inflexible. If new discoveries were made during the mission, how could the platforms be redesigned to accommodate unplanned research? Moreover, a Hubble-like glitch or catastrophic accident could wipe out a major portion of the project. Says Tom Donahue, a University of Michigan professor of planetary science: "NASA didn't seem to realize that it was putting too many eggs into one basket...
...stand not just for countries but for Presidents, Prime Ministers and potentates whom, in many cases, he knows well and calls by their first name. If a crisis erupts, Bush's instinct is to reach for a telephone. More trouble on the Turkey-Iraq border? Call Turgut Ozal. Another glitch in the trade talks? Call Toshiki Kaifu. For the past 2 1/2 years, the White House switchboard has often been more important to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy than the State Department, CIA and Strategic Air Command combined...
...says Cione. For five months, they are drilled in tap, jazz, how to walk as a show girl, theatrical makeup and stage presence. When Cione's done with them, women who have never had Lesson 1 in tap will hoof their way through a 10-minute routine without a glitch. They may not know a single other step, but they'll nail their numbers every performance. The director has a penchant for squeezing the last drop of showmanship from what he has to work with. He pushes each performer to her limit...
...global-warming theorists are correct, temperatures could rise by another 1 degrees to 4 degrees C (2 degrees to 8 degrees F) over the next half- century. Unfortunately, no one can say whether even a decade-long heat wave confirms this view or is merely a glitch. Worse, says Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: "By the time the evidence is irrefutable, it could be too late to do anything...
BUSINESS: The glitch heard round the world...