Word: glitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been nine months since Clinton played federal marshal in the Great Yellowstone Mine Shootout. The dispute began in the late 1980s as new techniques for locating pay dirt suddenly turned old claims on Henderson into a $1 billion lode of extractable ore. The glitch was that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed...
Trust Wall Street to spot a hot investment play in what threatens to become the computer glitch of the century. The snafu--a.k.a. the Millennium Bug--arises because corporate and government computers recognize years by their last two digits, and thus will be unable to tell the year 2000 from 1900. Fixing the problem could cost $600 billion...
...that HASCS is correct in thinking that the e-mail system has now been successfully upgraded. We are rather impressed by HASCS's hard work on the third and final stage of the e-mail upgrade. The system is now complete with a "redundancy" feature so that any one glitch will not down the entire Harvard network, as confirmed by Rick Osterberg '96, director of residential computing support. And while "you can never foresee problems, "Osterberg said, "we can [now] recover from them much more quickly." The upgrade has additionally upped the system's speed, reducing waiting time. We hope...
Yesterday, for the first time in a long while, I turned on the television in my room. As a program started, some odd letters flashed on the left hand side of the screen: TV-something. What were they, these mysterious letters? A glitch of the emergency operating system? Some odd code to alien spaceships so their attacks could be synchronized? Perhaps even a subliminal message? In fact, the strange message in the corner of my screen was a part of the new system of television ratings...
...sneaker company's "lean years" landed it on the CalPERS list, and rightfully so: $100 invested in its stock in 1991 was worth only $122 five years later, vs. $232 for industry competitors. Sure, Reebok's stock has seen the light in the past 10 months, but this glitch hardly gives CalPERS assurance of the company's future long-term success. Our putting Reebok on the laggard list is as correct as the old adage: If the shoe fits, wear it. PATRICIA K. MACHT, Chief CalPERS Office of Public Affairs Sacramento, California...