Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problems haven't been so easy to fix in the company's mainframe business, which manufactures the multimillion-dollar data monsters that are the Cadillacs of the information highway. Most of the growth in computing these days is coming from small firms wiring up new networks with inexpensive computers. These small machines generally sell for thousands of dollars, not millions, and they are selling fast enough to push upstarts like Dell to the front of the market, well ahead...
There is also college football. Here, too, the problem is that there are only games once a week. (What was football's inventor doing on weekdays?) Another problem with the college ranks is too many lopsided games. To the sports junky who constantly needs a fix, it is not enough to wait around the whole year for Florida...
Hockey plays more frequently, but the beginning of the season is a bore. Who cares if the Bruins are 4-4-1 or 5-4-0? The season does not get interesting until February. No fix for our ESPN nut here...
After years of denying any wrongdoing, the company pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix prices for the livestock feed-supplement lysine and for citric acid, an additive found in products from cosmetics to soft drinks. The $100 million fine, the largest ever levied in a criminal antitrust case, was more than six times the amount of the previous record settlement. Further, ADM will pay an additional $90 million to settle civil suits. "In essence, greed, simple greed, replaced any sense of corporate decency or integrity" at ADM, said Joel Klein, the acting Assistant Attorney General for antitrust...
...Four strikeouts by Maddux so far, and not one walk--that's control for you," I could imagine the play-by-play announcer saying from Atlanta, as James watched Bill Clinton emerge slowly from behind the lectern, fix the questioner with a fearsomely sincere look, and speak words that were not heard. I found the thought of that disconcerting, but also--well, let's be honest about it--tempting...