Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategically placed town of Khost at the end of December, some Western diplomatic observers and Pakistani analysts in Islamabad thought that would give them a pretext to declare victory in the eight-year-old war and begin pulling out. But the Soviets have so far refused to fix a firm timetable for their withdrawal. The rebels, meanwhile, seemed determined to keep up the pressure, as they demonstrated late last week at the funeral of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and in later years an anti-mujahedin leftist. Khan died in Pakistan...
...flair for promotion and for getting under Koch's skin. Kennedy insists that his anti-Murdoch measure was designed to prevent the FCC from unilaterally repealing the cross- ownership rule the way it recently abolished the "fairness doctrine" requiring broadcasters to air opposing viewpoints. Murdoch had the "fix in" with the FCC, claims Kennedy. Now "he can keep his newspaper or he can keep his broadcasting station. But he can't keep them both. That...
Dean of the College Stephen Fix told students at an open meeting that the locks would reduce personal harassment and property theft and make students feel more secure...
Insurance will cover some of the money needed to fix the damage caused by the blaze, but it may not cover all of it, Cornelio said. Club members are exploring ways of raising the additional funds if necessary, she added...
...close to bankruptcy, a lawyer who knows him well says, "I would swap assets with Boesky any time." George Reycraft, who represents Boesky's former partners in a civil damage suit, claims that the speculator took $400 million out of his firm. "We just do not have a fix on his assets," says Lawyer Robert Gargill, who helped supervise the winding down of Boesky's brokerage business...