Word: fixedly
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...flowed into the house gym and the Bullitt Room, a classroom in Quincy. While the plumbers were working to unclog the blockage, students were told not to use their bathrooms, for fear that their flushed or drained water would travel down the pipes and soak the workers trying to fix the system. “We wanted to go on the side of caution,” Levesque said. “We just didn’t want toilets and tubs and sinks to be used by the students.” Quincy resident Shira R. Brettman...
Rubin listens intently from his cushioned perch and uses his lack of expertise to upend the traditional producer-as-God dynamic. "In the old days, when I'd hear something that's not working, I'd say, 'O.K., this is how we're going to fix it.' Now I ask, 'How do we fix it?' And nine times out of 10, what they come up with is as good as or better than how I would've done it," he says. Rubin's "they" includes a circle far wider than that of his peers. During a 1993 recording...
...past the advice column and into the other media of popular culture outlets.To be fair, self-help books shouldn’t be judged by the standards of literature. They are just vehicles for their messages, existing to tell their audience what is wrong with them and how to fix it. However, the rise of the self-help trade has infected other genres of books.Inspiration-fused memoirs such as “Tuesdays with Morrie” or more recently “The Pursuit of Happyness” may not live in the advice section of the bookstore...
...deemed "the best Florestan [Fidelio's leading man] performing today" by one critic - leading a stellar cast. On Dec. 2, however, a mechanical failure of the hall's stage works that forced the cancellation of several performances demonstrated just how risky and tenuous such triumphs can be. A temporary fix has salvaged the season, but the brief hiatus turned the spotlight on the scale of Valencia's ambition...
...there are some Americans who are willing to pay a little bit more for their luxuries instead of bearing the costs of exploitation. Such consumers can work with corporations to develop an understanding by which products may be more expensive but some of the profits will be used to fix the objectionable practices. Companies like Starbucks provide an additional service, i.e. supporting fair trade coffee for a greater cost which its consumers are willing to pay. Such a negotiation should be the ultimate goal of boycotts...