Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bennett, a staunch conservative who has beaten the Western drum while beating up on the colleges for the same perceived derelictions as Bloom denounced, calls the Chicago philosopher's work a "brilliant book, a phenomenon" that "points out where higher education has gone wrong and what we need to fix it." Bennett says, "Too many schools ignore the great minds and instead try to teach kids how to make a living...
...vessel as a prison for 700 minimum- security offenders. The potential savings are considerable: as much as 70% over a comparable building, which would cost $50 million to construct. New York City's floating detention centers, says Ruby Ryles, a city corrections department official, are a "quick fix" to a prisoner glut that has swelled the local jail population to 102% of capacity...
Commuting every day to a desk in the Pentagon, where he has been assigned to the Navy's long-range planning, or occupying himself with various fix-up projects at home in Rockville, Md., Poindexter at first tried to ignore all developments in the growing Iran-contra scandal. But for the past three months he has spent his time in the Washington office of his attorney, Richard Beckler, preparing for his appearance on Capitol Hill. Last week he sat glued to a TV set, watching North's testimony and expressing admiration for his former aide's assertiveness. Though Poindexter...
Meanwhile, her movers and shapers were working overtime to fix the Whitney magic in her music videos. The first video, You Give Good Love, tells the story of a romance with a cameraman -- and, more tellingly, with his adoring camera. In Saving All My Love, she is a beaming All-American girl shadowed by her secret lover's wife. In Greatest Love, Whitney dazzles in rehearsal rags and in a sequined evening gown that hangs elegantly from the world's creamiest shoulders. For How Will I Know, she wears just a yard or so of slink swank but still upstages...
When Baker mutters, "This dog won't hunt," the old hands around him know that is the end of an idea. His other favorite phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is equally unspectacular but equally meaningful for the Baker crew. It means stop right there, we don't want any more needless work...