Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bafalis needs all the help he can get. Despite his ten years in Congress, his name recognition by voters is almost nil. Bafalis hopes that a series of television commercials will soon fix that. Even so, he faces a formidable task in carving out a distinctive niche. Bafalis plans to focus on crime as his major issue, favoring mandatory jail sentences and an end to plea bargaining. But Graham is no softy on crime; the Governor has signed 39 death warrants since taking office. Bafalis' stance on the volatile immigration issue echoes Graham's as well; both favor...
...electronic phone book offers the user far more services than a paper one. To find a mechanic to fix the family car, he just types in the make of his auto and his address. The machine will then provide the name and location of the nearest garage servicing that model. To speak to a friend in America, the customer presses another button and the screen shows a map of the world marked with the costs and dialing procedures for the different countries. The telephone computer can find a name even if it is not being spelled correctly. Given the phonetic...
...action," says Lawyer William Mellor III, who worked for Watt in Denver. Another Mountain States lawyer, Kea Bardeen, explains Watt's rationale: "He believes that if you make a decision and it's a mistake, you can always go back and fix...
...matter the price, millions need their daily chocolate fix...
...millions of other Americans, for whom the product of the cacao bean is not so much a feast as a fix. Per capita consumption of chocolate in the U.S. last year was 9.1 Ibs.; some $3.4 billion was spent on chocolate products of all kinds. While Americans lag behind Austrians, Belgians, Norwegians, Germans and the league-leading Swiss, U.S. consumption of luxe chocolates (selling for up to $30 per Ib.) is growing steadily. From coast to coast, shamelessly fragrant new boutiques with names like Le Chocolat Elegant, Nutty Chocolatier and La Maison de Bon Bon are blooming...