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Word: fixedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, in print in the U.S.; young readers want the new one, and they want it now. In the Henderson-Nold household in Berkeley, Calif., Nick, 12, and Will, 10, were so desperate for the next fix that Nick and his mother, Susan Henderson, went straight to the Internet, where they struck gold. More than a month before the Prisoner of Azkaban was available even in Britain, the Henderson-Nolds had ordered it from amazon.com's British subsidiary, amazon.co.uk, for about $19, including shipping. The book landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Abracadabra! | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...temporary fix right now," he said. "They will correct the problem shortly...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Lab Building Evacuated | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...temporary fix right now," he said. "They will correct the problem shortly...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Power Outage Leads to Evacuation of Medical School Building | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...Renewal in Denver while Yvonne tips his platinum hair blue with a mascara wand. Landry, who has had his hair tipped for 14 years and may in fact be in a fashion rut, is here after making a mess with store-bought blue dye. "Yvonne told me she could fix this," he says, "and I was pretty much, 'Whatever.'" Stylists say dyeing men's hair is easier than women's: if they mess up, the guys usually just tell them to shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: A Man and His Colorist | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...street corner in New York City at 5:30 in the morning hoping for a sign from above. No, I haven't lost my mind or my way--yet. I'm trying to help the little yellow gizmo I've hooked up to my notebook computer get a fix on my latitude and longitude using signals from a network of global-positioning satellites. Since the signals can't travel through walls, I'm stuck outside. Finally, a message pops up onscreen: "No GPS receiver has been detected." Grrr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in Space | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

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