Word: mix-up
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...went unheeded, he grabbed a wire and painfully pulled himself through a crack in the rubble. While Balcolm was being treated at a makeshift hospital, however, his dog tags were found in the wreckage. He was declared dead, and his relatives were notified. Balcolm did not learn about the mix-up until he called his brother the next day. Said Balcolm: "My mother thought a miracle had occurred...
...number of debts have become critical, and the magazine's trustees have had to bail it out on several occasions. Last April, an audit by the I. R. S. led to repeated (and unfounded) rumors that the Advocate would fold. Although the audit was actually prompted by a technical mix-up of the magazine's tax-exempt status, the prevalence of these rumors illustrate another equally acute problem that the Advocate staff has had to deal with recently: a general loss of readership and respect in the Harvard undergraduate community...
Campaign workers in several different primary races agreed that the census mix-up will probably not significantly affect tomorrow's turnout because of public clarifications by the election commission and because the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination has attracted a great deal of media coverage...
...examined Sunny when she was taken to Newport Hospital on Dec. 21, 1980, suffering her second coma, said that she had "low blood sugar and an incredibly high insulin level," which is considered an abnormal combination. The defense had hoped that pretrial depositions from lab technicians would substantiate a mix-up in tests indicating that the insulin might have been manufactured in Sunny's body after her admission. But on the stand the technicians said they had been "confused" by defense questions in the pretrial testimony, and insisted that the tests actually had been made and labeled in unambiguous...
Members of the department of Romance Languages and Literatures are concerned that fewer students than expected may attend opening sessions of classes next week because of an administrative mix-up that led to the omission of professors' names beside more than 50 departmental courses in the course catalogue...