Word: glitching
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...phone numbers, which appeared on the directory because of a Web site glitch, were immediately removed from the site by the Office of the Registrar on August 1 after the Freshman Dean’s Office became aware of the loophole...
...similar incident occurred last year, when freshmen’s suite numbers—in addition to dorm telephone numbers—appeared early on the student directory for three full days before the administration caught the glitch...
...Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "As you know, the President and I have had our differences," said O'Neill. "But we have no differences on the need to end the violence in Northern Ireland." The package sailed through the House without a glitch, and is expected to win approval in the Senate, where its sponsors are two other experienced Irish pols, Edward Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The Administration is finding the road much bumpier for the rest of its $16.2 billion foreign aid package for fiscal year 1987, which many lawmakers regard as an exorbitant expenditure...
Arthur Kopit’s “Y2K” was written in 1999, when the fears that a massive technological glitch would bring about worldwide destruction were at their height. Though the titular epoch has passed, the story about a young “power couple” whose identities are stolen by a somewhat maddened young computer hacker remains truthful, frightening and, ultimately, thrilling...
...first big glitch occurred on July 12, when a computer detected contamination in Challenger's hydrogen fuel and aborted the launch 3 sec. before takeoff. The 112-ton spacecraft blasted off 17 days later, but 5 min. 15 sec. into the flight, a monitoring device reported that one of the three main engines seemed to be heating up to a dangerous 1,950 F. That sensor alerted the onboard computer, and for the first time in the 24-year history of the U.S. manned space, an engine was shut down in flight. But as the craft hobbled bravely heavenward...