Word: fixed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Milford town administrators said they are doing their best to fix the pollution problem...
...Sony, it now appears that just talking to the studio can damage a career. Canton will not be replaced for now (two deputies will share his duties for the time being). But most industry executives believe Sony must do more to fix its studio than merely shuffle executives. After a profligate run that astonished Hollywood, Sony acknowledged in 1994 that it had lost more than $3 billion on its filmed-entertainment operations since it bought Columbia Pictures from Coca-Cola...
...Clinton's focus on such small-change matters as school uniforms, curfews and V-chips was a tactic of genius. He could be appealing as the nation's ward healer, while lamenting the existence of deep, vast ills that no one believed a national leader could fix anyway. He carefully looked to determine which side his bread was buttered on, and saw that it was the crust...
Saying Clinton stole the G.O.P.'s positions misses the point. He stole their issues and refinished them with his own less severe, and therefore more acceptable, gloss. Even welfare reform was made easier to swallow for the Democrats' more liberal adherents when the President swore he would "fix" the bill's toughest commands in a second term...
...Clinton both have concerns about the welfare bill that Clinton has signed. At the convention, Clinton will promise to "finish the job" with tax incentives and other proposals designed to create 1 million jobs for welfare recipients. Morris is confident that next year Clinton will be able to fix the bill's biggest problems--food-stamp cuts and the benefits it strips from legal immigrants. "Welfare reform is a process, not a bill," Morris says. "This was a historic beginning, not the end of the story. I'm convinced the story has a happy ending...