Word: fixed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woke up and realized I liked that song by the Jets called "Rocket to You." I was ashamed; it was a corny, schlocky and dumb song about a guy who doesn't know how to fix appliances. It was all over the top-40 stations. It had a ridiculous rap segment ("Don't call me when your toaster won't pop up, don't call me just to cut your lawn") and for some reason I thought it was funky as hell. My taste had plummeted through the floor...
Henry believes the Philadelphia program will make a difference because it is willing to take the three to six years needed to "put things right" in a young man's life. Such a philosophy and time frame contrast with government programs offering quick-fix solutions, but Henry believes in taking a pay-now- or-pay-later approach. His goal for the fathers is true self-sufficiency, by training them for jobs in areas such as printing, building maintenance and computer programming. This is no easy trick; the program has a hard time persuading employers to give the young...
Moreover, Rudenstine said the broad range of prospective increases, from 5 to 10 percent, would not have beenhelpful to someone intending to fix prices.Finally, Rudenstine said the would have preparedsuch notes only after a Princeton committee hadalready decided that college's tuition increasefor the next year...
...verbal machismo, has always walked away from fights once they got too tough; that he seemed to have delusions of grandeur, fed by our curious habit of treating successful entrepreneurs as geniuses; that in politics he was both amazingly naive and obnoxiously arrogant; that he promised to fix everything without spelling out what he would...
...lost on the economy and taxes. There is a strong feeling among the voters that the economy is crummy and that George Bush isn't going to do anything about it. We Republicans are not seen as credible agents of change in economic policy. And we can't fix that just with a negative campaign...