Word: glitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Huppe said the blotter omission was the result of a "computer glitch...
...trade barriers and revise its banking structure--moves demanded by Rubin and transmitted to the IMF. Mindful of the likely congressional reaction, the U.S. offered only to provide a small amount in loans--but not unless necessary. American officials played down the crisis. Clinton called the Asian markets a "glitch." Still, the markets kept glitching. After a brief rise, South Korea's stock market plunged again. By mid-December more than $1 billion a day was flowing out of Korea...
...error resulted from a glitch in the software the Coop uses for billing, he said...
...biggest iceberg came in 1994, when Intel released millions of flawed Pentium chips. The problem was small, an internal routing glitch that caused a mathematical error. Intel took solace from the fact that this occurred so infrequently that most users could leave their PCs on for years without running into a problem. Intel's hyper-rational, Grove-trained engineers told concerned callers not to worry unless they were planning to sweat some advanced astrophysics problems that weekend. The callers hung up and dialed CNN. And the New York Times. And the Wall Street Journal. Grove, who was on a Christmas...
...glitch in the Undergraduate Council computer program temporarily prevented transfer students and some other undergraduates from voting in the council's elections this week...