For them, gaining even the 24 pounds formerly recommended can be too much if they want the best chance that their pregnancies will proceed without serious medical glitches.

Among the hiccups, she said, were bureaucratic nightmares when transferring customers from the incumbent providers, as well as serious technological glitches.

Immediately she realized Langdon and Teabing had failed to see a serious glitch.

There was one serious glitch at the end.

A serious glitch in self-marketing, I think.

The success has not come without serious glitches.

But Woods had no serious glitches.

Warren Dressler, a Manufacturers Hanover vice president, remembered a more serious glitch from an earlier merger.

The one potentially serious glitch was in the torpedo room.

Nevertheless, on a regional basis there have been serious glitches.