Word: glitch
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...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...
...August putsch: Gorbachev was too dependent on information filtered to him by his chief of staff, who proved to be one of the coup's ringleaders. Yeltsin is much more open to different points of view -- some would say too accessible. The result has been an occasional glitch between the Prime Minister-President and his government. An air of mystery still surrounds the drafting of a presidential decree merging the police and security forces into one monster agency, which Yeltsin hastily signed before departing on a state visit to Italy last December. It was later struck down by Russia...
...glitch in writing poetry, then is the problem of finance. When I ask Kevin if he plans to be a poet supporting himself with his writing alone he says, "I don't think there is any such beast. Even Seamus [Heaney] teachers and lectures." He laughs when I ask him if he wants to be famous. "Do I want to be famous? Well, I'm not going to be rich In a way, it's reassuring that no one cares about poetry," he answer. "But I'd like to be know, and to keep writing think if I said tomorrow...
...years in development, the sole working prototype for the costly F-22 Stealth fighter jet crash-landed and burst into flames during a test run in California last week. The pilot escaped unharmed. Air Force officials believe a computer glitch was at fault...