Word: fixed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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General Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff: I think that a blockade, a political talk, would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this. You're in a pretty bad fix, Mr. President...
...problem, and we work hard on many levels to combat it. Colleges cannot, however, battle a cultural problem on their own. Students engaging in this type of self-destructive behavior often come with a lot of baggage. It is time we stopped expecting our educational institutions to fix everything that is broken in our society. Everyone bears responsibility. LORI OSTERHOUDT Oneonta, N.Y. I agree that raising the age at which it is legal to drink may have inadvertently increased the attraction of alcohol. As a college student of legal drinking age, I can say from experience that the appeal...
Neither of the standard therapies for congestive heart failure--drugs and heart transplant--has proved particularly effective. Medications such as ace inhibitors keep the body's blood pressure down, making it easier for a weakened heart to circulate blood, but they do not fix the organ. In late-stage heart failure, the only option is a heart transplant. But while as many as 50,000 people in the U.S. alone need a heart transplant, only 2,500 transplants are performed there each year. Heart transplants have proved quite effective, with mortality rates of only 20% after a year...
...House Speaker Newt Gingrich and majority leader Trent Lott and persuaded them to slip a giant gift to his clients into the must-pass balanced-budget agreement just minutes before it was inked. For weeks it looked as if the two g.o.p. leaders had pulled off a classic fix: looting the general Treasury in the interest of a specific client with a laser-like incursion into a massive bill that no one had the time or inclination to read. Tobacco executives--the guys who raised their right hands and swore that tobacco does not cause cancer, must have been spiking...
...neurologist who developed Redux. There's also talk of bringing action against the FDA--though federal law usually protects government officials from suits challenging routine performance of duties like approving drugs. Whatever the outcome of the legal battles, they leave unsettled larger societal questions--about Americans' infatuation with quick-fix remedies for whatever ails them, real or imagined, and their doctors' willingness to cater...