Word: glitch
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...late December, the Federal Register published the administration's hard-fought and exhaustively researched medical privacy rules, hailed by privacy advocates as the most comprehensive and sweeping protections ever. But thanks to an administrative glitch (chalk it up to end-of-term nerves), the rules were never sent to Congress for a required 60-day review - until February...
Last year's Springfest ran $4,000 over budget and a glitch in planning meant that the inflatable castles and rides did not arrive to the event...
...Harvard has led Yale in the fourth quarter and came out the loser each time. For the past two seasons, Harvard has either been ahead or tied in the fourth quarter in each game that it lost. Even the great Ivy League championship team of 1997 had a similar glitch, opening a 20-0 lead over Bucknell that slowly frittered away...
...have thousands of votes for Vice President Al Gore '69 disappearing from a single county in New Mexico in a recount because of a "computer glitch." We see electors holding ballots up to the light, attempting to channel the voter who may or may not have meant to punch all the way through the flimsy card. We are told of "hanging chads," pieces of the ballot where the stylus should have punched all the way through and detached a small round confetti-like piece of paper, but instead leave the piece hanging by a cellulose thread. These chads, among other...
...that flow through the airspace were switched to the emergency system. Some of them were not up to speed on that version, though, and they became confused and started yelling, "The backup system isn't working!" The problem was caused by what an agency spokesman called a glitch in the software--installed just that morning--although, he added, safety was never compromised...