Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly no one would condone John De Lorean's actions. Nevertheless, we should be grateful to him. Our society craves such people in order to reaffirm our self-worth and goodness. The higher they are and the harder they fall, the greater our fix...
...THAT POINT new players arrived Radcliffe called in an outside consultant to find out what was wrong and how to fix it, but told the consultant to wait until the summer to do his testing so as not to disrupt use of the gym. Horner then told Harvard's QRAC Management Committee about the problems. She also told President Bok and Dean Rosovsky both of whom sit on the joint committee that decides matters affecting the two institutions. Everyone agreed to have the consultants go ahead with the testing and work under the presumption that any repairs would be completed...
University officials are searching for ways to fix Lowell House's oversensitive new fire alarm system, which some say is currently more dangerous than the one it replaced...
...solid financial performance over the long haul (20 years or more) but also because of other qualities, especially the ability to innovate. The excellent companies, say the authors, "fawn" on their customers and learn from them. The best managers value action above all else, a spirit of "do it, fix it, try it." They insist on top quality in their products. They solicit their employees' ideas and "treat them like adults," allowing talented people "long tethers" for experimenting. To uncover these characteristics, the authors spent considerable time at each company. Said Waterman: "We didn't talk just...
...much as one-third of the bill for repairing the gym's faults. Robert Saltonstall, the associate vice-president for operations who oversees the department, estimates that the total bill could run into the "hundreds of thousands of dollars." That figure covers just the costs to fix the cause of the leaks, and not the squash court damages they caused...