Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration's attitude toward an air strike had been years in the making. The President has been preoccupied with the problem of terrorism since his early days in office. Two events in Reagan's first year helped to fix his thoughts on Gaddafi as a symbol of virtually everything he hates. One was a Libyan attack on U.S. jets in the Gulf of Sidra that resulted in the shooting down of two of Gaddafi's Soviet-built Su-22 fighter planes. Later in 1981 U.S. intelligence picked up information that Libya was sending hit squads...
...constructive use of investment. Using investment as a means toward social and political progress may not bring about an overnight solution, but divestment leaves us with no influence at all. Instead, it robs Blacks of jobs and isolates us from the debate inside South Africa. Divesititure is a quick-fix panacea that would leave us atop the most impregnable ivory tower of all--that of self-righteousness. All we could do is yell at the South African government from our dizzying moral heights supposedly content with the knowledge that we had cleansed ourselves of the entire affair...
...President Reagan is clearly one to go for the quick fix," said James H. Vanderpool '89, one of the predominantly freshmen participants in the discussion in the Freshman Union's private dining room. He said he didn't think Reagan had exhausted nonmilitary options, such as economic sanctions, before deciding to attack the military bases...
Their problems start with some little do-it-yourself fix-ups: on a rotted stair riser and a front-door lock that sticks. Working on them, Walter somehow causes both the stairway and the entranceway to collapse. That says nothing about what happens to the chimney when he carelessly tosses a log into the second-floor fireplace. What termites and neglect have put asunder eventually requires a crew of 100 to set to rights. And what happens to all of them when Anna innocently plugs a kitchen appliance into the workers' heavy- equipment circuit one sunny morning both defies description...
...last month Eastern was $2.5 billion in debt and its bankers were threatening to call in some of the loans if the airline's unions did not agree to make $450 million worth of wage concessions. Eastern was perilously near bankruptcy. Said Borman: "It was either fix it, sell it or merge...