Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Experts point to other deep-seated causes that produce a continued national craving for drugs: lack of community, disintegration of the family, moral laxity, the relentless pressure to perform in a fast-paced society. "The real remedies to the problem don't satisfy Americans' urge for a quick fix," says Ted Galen Carpenter of the CATO Institute, a Washington think tank. "It's a long, laborious process." Merely preaching about the evils of dope is no more likely to purify the school- yard than a Sunday sermon about fallen women is likely to make the congregation chaste. Actually, moralizing often...
...required engine repairs. On one day Eastern kept 285 passengers waiting five hours before announcing the cancellation. On the fifth day, it kept travelers at the airport for 13 1/2 hours before finally lifting off for London. Admitted Cosley: "We abused several hundred of our passengers." Seeking a fix, Eastern replaced two of its top maintenance executives. The FAA has levied heavy fines against Eastern, American and, last week, Pan Am for maintenance-related violations...
...enthusiasts joined the Bears on their flight from Chicago, and groups of Texans decided, in one woman's phrase, "to use the occasion to squeeze in some shopping. I needed a new raincoat." Most Americans in the crowd, though, were expatriates and service members eager for a football fix. Judging by the number of Army, Air Force and Marine T shirts from bases across Europe, American Bowl weekend would have been a good time for the Soviets to attack. In the stands beside their British cousins, the Americans offered football seminars throughout the evening. Said Rugby Player Ian Blakey...
...cellular stone hill town but the dream environment conjured up by Sant'Elia: all girders and concrete cliffs, with glass elevators zipping up the exterior walls. Its painting would try to encompass not just sight but noise, heat and smell; above all, it would depict movement. To fix this industrial mode in Italian (and European) culture, the pastoral mode had to be slaughtered. "Kill the moonlight!" one futurist manifesto exclaimed. Whatever lingered from the 1890s -- symbolism, impressionism, the cults of nuance and nostalgia, of the Arcadian countryside or the introverted personality -- was futurism's enemy...
Once touched by the fire of the Del-Lords, a convert may have to hustle around a little in order to get a fix on the band. The group has not bent radio out of shape; in fact, its airwave appearances have been erratic. The Del-Lords' second album, Johnny Comes Marching Home, was released a few months back and made few of the conventional commercial tremors, even though it contains some of the year's best tunes. The songs range between social comment and personal tenderness, with a free-for-all finesse that should have brought the Del-Lords...