Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broken, but don't worry--Marty Tenenbaum knows how to fix it. Tenenbaum is chairman of CommerceNet, a nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, Calif., and devoted, unsurprisingly, to promoting commerce on the Net. And his silver bullet, an obscure design language called XML, is about to transform cyberspace...
...many fellow Baby Boomers like me that even Hillary Clinton is not at ease with computers. You must think of computers like cars: you don't have to know how they work in order to operate one. If you can't get it to work properly, someone will fix it for you. And once you're used to one, you will never want to be without it. LYNN MOSS Fish Hoek, South Africa...
Nowhere is this more apparent than in their untitled video project from the 1995 Venice Biennale, an extraordinary and epic look at the ordinary and ephemeral. The piece includes nearly 10 monitors showing over 80 hours of footage from Swiss life. Workers fix sewage lines or stir huge vats of cheese; cats are carefully judged at a pet show; a dentist drills a cavity; and a pulsing crowd moves to awful music and out-of-synch lights at a disco...
There was a time when liberals, at least, believed that the way to fix bad local schools, especially in poor areas with low tax bases, was to give them federal money. In 1965 Congress passed, in a spirit of great hope, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which for the first time created a federal program (now known as Title I) to fund local schools. The program is still going, but the overall cause lost a lot of momentum when a big government study came out in 1966 contending that student achievement is not very closely related to school spending...
...peace is truly the key to this pact (as both countries claim it is), then let the Peace Constitution be. Japan has something truly special and worth upholding in the Peace Constitution. Let's not fix something that was never broken...