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University officials explained that this lack of coordination among administrators and workers is a continuing problem. "It's a glitch in the system," said Robert E. Lyng, facilities manager in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, "and it definitely could have been handled better...
Forecasters naturally disagree with that. Although they admit to making errors, they insist there is no glitch in their complex economic models. Data Resources Inc., for example, was one of dozens of outfits that failed to anticipate the sharpness of the recession. But Allen Sinai, senior vice president of the big Massachusetts firm, attributes that shortcoming to factors that range from unexpected Federal Reserve shifts to a misreading of the role of foreign trade. In any event, says Sinai, DRI usually assigns its forecasts no more than a 50%-to-55% probability of being right. Adds he: "Clients who have...
...still bumping along the bottom of the painful slump that began in July 1981. The Government's index of leading indicators, the statistics thought to foreshadow most accurately future business trends, dropped .9% in August, after four months of upticks. Reagan dismissed this in advance as "a glitch" in a pattern of generally hopeful signs; Democrats saw much more than a glitch...
After a spectacular mission, a mysterious little glitch...
There was, however, a mysterious glitch. While Voyager 2 was hidden behind Saturn it developed the space-age equivalent of a crick in the neck, reducing the mobility of its cameras. But the robot had already accomplished most of its goals, and the trouble will almost certainly not prevent use of the cameras on the rest of Voyager 2's flight-past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune...