Word: slipups
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Escobar had been on the town with friends, carousing at a roadside dance bar called Restaurante el Indio, when three men and a woman accosted him at 3:30 a.m. They hurled insults at him for his slipup at the World Cup. When he flung back epithets of his own, two of the men drew handguns. "All of a sudden, we heard gunfire, and then Escobar was on the ground, groaning and clutching his chest," said Jorge Arango, a witness. Escobar had been shot 12 times. One of the assailants reportedly said, "Thanks for the auto-goal...
...charge of getting news into the building, Furnad, senior executive producer, is the man responsible for getting it on the air. An 18- year veteran of ABC News who joined CNN in 1983, Furnad is a feisty field general who can berate his troops for a technical slipup one minute and praise them warmly the next. Staffers stand in awe of his poise and judgment under fire. "As wild as he is," says anchor Bobbie Battista, "there isn't anybody I'd rather have in there...
...speculate that the INS suspected her of ties to the Castro government. But Lara pointed out that she entered the U.S. earlier this year on the same visa, which was issued last fall in Paris. Immigration officials say the issuance of the visa was the result of a slipup...
...pregnant fiancee, announces that he does not want to finish his senior year at Kent State and begins angling for a sales job at Springer Motors. Rabbit dislikes Nelson: "I think one of the troubles between me and the kid is every time I had a little, you know, slipup, he was there to see it." Dodging his son as much as he can. Rabbit quixotically pursues an imagined daughter; he suspects that a young woman who comes to his car lot is the product of his affair, some 20 years and two novels ago, with a woman named Ruth...
...Lewis juggling act was exposed by a slipup. Lewis inadvertently shipped off the wrong page of a transfer form, and rather than create a credit, which he had intended to do, set up a branch office debit instead. The computer alarms sounded, and the dimensions of the fraud began to surface...