Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if these schools were found to fix the price of higher education, the majority neglected to consider the argument that students should not choose schools on the regular free-market model of lowest price...
...like to drive a Porsche, but your checking account says you drive an Escort," said Healy. "We'd like to pave all of the streets and fix all of the buildings, but we don't have the money to do everything...
...immediate legal problem can be seen in an analogy to gas stations. Say the stations with the best gas in town all decide on gas prices, and also on the discount they give preferred (even "needy") customers. Further, the practice raises the question of whether the service station owners fix the wages of their attendants, or the price for accessories like windshield wipers. The practice may benefit customers and workers; it may not. But it is clearly illegal...
...sesquicentennial of Boston University by trying to find a metaphor for the age in which we live. It was an elegant game, but also inadvertently right for an age of television and drugs, in which the world is reduced to a sound bite or a capsule, a quick fix of meaning...
...approaching national anniversary. But the larger dilemma remains unresolved. New travel restrictions do not address the root causes of widespread popular disaffection in East Germany. "It's like taking an aspirin for a toothache," said a Western diplomat in Prague. "It may relieve the pain, but it won't fix the problem." As the rioting in Dresden made only too clear, the refugees who had the good luck to act are hardly the only ones who want out. In Leipzig, 10,000 East Germans marched through the streets demanding change and shouting the name of the man who inspires them...