Word: mixup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston College librarian accused of peddling hundreds of works stolen from the school's rare books collection surrendered to the FBI Monday after missing a hearing because of a mixup between lawyers...
Archer's hero is Adam Scott, a former British army captain who goes on the run and has trouble crossing borders. The pages turn amusingly, and secret agents from several nations chase the protagonist with vigor and invention. But all this hare-and-hounding is the result of a mixup, and one suspects quite early on that when that nice Captain Scott is given a hearing, it will be the agents who are in trouble...
Reardon said the scheduling mixup occurred because both he and McLaughlin had still been working under the former "75 percent rule" that predated the new bylaw and which required only three-quarters of a Division I school's opponents to be from within the division...
...first Brandeis goal followed a long throw-in into the packed Crimson penalty area, which then ricocheted off a forest of legs pull Crimson keeper Matt Ginsburg. The Judge took advantage of a mixup in the Harvard defect to add the second goal...
Shelby Calvert qualified for the Eastern championships to be held at Harvard in early March by placing second in the 200 butterfly (2:13.8). She won the 100 butterfly in an Eastern qualifying time of 1:01.65 as well, but the time was disqualified because of a lane mixup...