Word: fixed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President pledges $41 million for immediate highway repair and $639 million in low-interest small-business loans. He boasts that when told by a highway engineer it would take a year to repair I-10, he asked, "What do we have to do to fix it in less time?" And he assures his hosts, "We have no intention, none, of letting this be a short-term thing." Pause. Soon, he says, he and Budget Director Leon Panetta will "go back to Washington and figure out how to pay for it." He is smiling, but this is obviously not a joke...
...upset the delicate texture of the story, the balance of personalities, that Brooks always seeks. "The ripple effect drove me crazy," he says. "You spit in the water and cause a tidal wave." And few films have been so avidly, publicly scrutinized while its director was trying to fix things. "It's antithetical to everything you need to do your job," Brooks says. "There's a time when you gotta close the door...
...addicts lectured on staying straight. A midwife running the parenting session gave step-by-step instruction on how to dress a child in a snowsuit to 30 young women, many of whom had never had a snowsuit of their own. "I learned how to feed my children -- how to fix a healthy meal and not feed them hot dogs and beans all the time," says Holland. "I learned you don't have to spank them; you can just talk to them." A woman named Michelle Nielsen became her mentor. "I'd take her to the store or to a prenatal...
...first 18 years, during which her father Al, who has variously driven a truck, managed apartments and worked at a bait-and-tackle store, was her best friend. He gave her her first gun, a .22, when she was five, taught her to hunt and fish and fix a transmission. Her parents' marriage fell apart in 1985, and two years later her mother married James Golden, her sixth husband (who told TIME last week that yet another divorce is in the works). Soon afterward, Harding moved in with Gillooly, whom she had been dating for three years...
...Putting the ball into the basket is the easiest thing to fix with practice," the forward starter said...