Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East Harlem. At the back of the room is a sign admonishing them to PRACTICE MORE; in front is this dervish of a drill instructor, issuing staccato directives from beneath a cloud of frizzy, dark hair that seems charged by her kinetic energy. "Don't anyone make a sound. Fix your feet and your bow right away. O.K., eyes on me. No fooling around...
...empty violin cases were stacked against the walls of the gym at Central Park East I elementary school, and their young owners, ages 5 and up, formed neat rows on the basketball court. They shifted nervously, awaiting their cue to enter the packed auditorium. "When you get onstage, fix your feet and your bows!" yelled Roberta. "Who do you watch? Your mother...
...Anytime children are involved in a horrible accident such as this one," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Nichole Christian, "there?s an emotional connection that tends to drive the price up." But in the end, it is hardball negotiations that usually fix the final price tag, she says. This is precisely what happened in GM?s last major product-liability setback. In February 1993, a Georgia jury slapped General Motors with a $105 million verdict for having designed its C/K pickup trucks with sidesaddle gas tanks, which the plaintiffs claimed made the vehicles prone to explode during side crashes...
...percent to 15 percent of ticket holders don?t show up, overbooking allows them to keep flights full (and airfares down). But Delta acknowledged Wednesday that it may be squeezing that penny a little too hard ? or simply miscalculating the no-show rate. New software that was supposed to fix that has apparently been delayed. But Delta also may have been right in suggesting that a few thousand bumpings do not a hated airline make. When it came to overall passenger complaints, Delta had the second-best record among major carriers, with 1.82 complaints per 100,000 passengers. The loser...
...will live up to the obligations given to us." But as dinner stretches to midnight, Thaci begins to flag. Perhaps it is the endless days of negotiations with the U.S. or the months of war or just the barrage of journalists' questions about how exactly he hopes to fix this shattered land. Even the lady of the rented house, Mevlyde Kadriu, has questions: "Well, when are we going back to our jobs?" she asks boldly. Thaci shifts wearily in his seat, unloads a few oblique evasions and turns back to his demitasse of Nescafe...