Word: fixed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening he and linebacker Sean Hansen '95 became involved in a fight. Burnham was beaten so severely that it required surgery to fix a blow-out fracture to his left...
...grandchildren and dining at home with his wife Alma (who doesn't want him to run). After a lifetime of Army housing, he likes being what he calls "General Harry Homeowner" in his $1.3 million mini-mansion in a Washington suburb. The general's missions: repairing drywall to fix water damage from an upstairs shower and messing around with the antique Volvos he loves to restore. Sometimes the papers he sends back to his office-he works mostly from home-have grease stains. Since leaving the Pentagon in September 1993, he has sought to make serious money for the first...
...Africa's President, P.W. Botha, known as the Great Crocodile for his blustery temper. An off-the-record courtesy call was finally arranged in 1989. So anxious was Barnard, the intelligence chief, about the meeting that seconds before the two men were to shake hands, he knelt down to fix Mandela's clumsily tied shoes. (Prisoners were forbidden shoelaces, and Mandela was long out of the habit of tying them...
...place on earth will be out of range. Satellites are also making possible commercial use of the Pentagon- developed global positioning system, which was employed by soldiers using handheld monitors during the Gulf War to pinpoint their location in the desert. Private-boat owners have been using GPS to fix their position at sea for the past decade...
...separate subsidiary, which allowed McCaw customers to pick their own long-distance carriers. But when Bingaman has actually gone to court, the results have not been stellar. Two months ago, she suffered a humiliating defeat after suing General Electric on charges it conspired with DeBeers of South Africa to fix industrial diamond prices. Before the companies had even presented their defense, a federal judge dismissed the case, complaining that the government's evidence was too weak...