Word: mix-up
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...self-employed man who hired a lawyer to sort out a blunder by tax authorities has been left facing a €2.2 million bill in legal fees. The man had received a €290 million tax bill on his €17,000 annual salary - a mix-up that took the attorney just an hour to resolve. But under German law, the lawyer is entitled to a fixed percentage of the reduction in tax obtained. Of course, it's nice for the tax man to know that, for once, there is someone less popular than...
...primary source citations—do not unambiguously point to plagiarism. On the other hand, HLS Dean Elena Kagan has labeled Ogletree’s offense “a serious scholarly transgression.” Ogletree defended his errors by explaining that the mistake resulted from an editing mix-up caused by his assistants. After Ogletree failed to recognize that he had never written the text in question, the other author’s words were subsequently published...
That's an issue that economists, politicians and workers are struggling with as the U.S. finds itself in the middle of a structural shift in the economy that no one quite expected. There must be a mix-up here. We ordered a recovery, heavy on the jobs, please. What we're getting is a new kind of homeland insecurity powered by the rise of outsourcing, a bland yet ominous piece of business jargon that seems to imply that every call center, insurance-claims processor, programming department and Wall Street back office is being moved to India, Ireland or some other...
...half months for his visa, finally being obliged to defer entry for a year, while a Harvard Law School (HLS) student had to spend a term in England before being able to return to Harvard. Even when students reach the U.S., there is tension. A small bureaucratic mix-up could escalate into a major crisis for the student involved...
...Janeiro suffering from a severe ear infection accidentally received a vasectomy in August when he responded to the wrong doctor’s call in the waiting room of a local clinic. The patient wasn’t alerted to the mix-up even by the nature and location of the procedure because he simply assumed that the infection had “deep roots...