Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...images out of your mind," Guna says. "After I saw that, I was so much more active in organizing campaigns. We have no control of Sri Lanka's government and its corruption, but we haven't just washed our hands. We're determined to fix...
...later, when the results revealed everything to be normal, I asked the radiologist how many infants were diagnosed with a problematic pelvis. Not many, I was told. However, she continued, the government reasoned that it was far more cost-effective to X-ray every newborn in the country - and fix the deformity before the child learned to walk - than shoulder the cost of corrective surgery when it was older. Needless to say, there are psychological benefits to this approach as well. Adrienne W. Covington, POISSY, FRANCE
...Fawcett's impact, for the thing about America is that it always imagines itself as young and beautiful - but the icons it chooses to emblematize that beauty are bound to age. Luster tarnishes, even on a golden girl. And the popular media are restless beasts; their attention can fix on one object for only so long. In time, about a year, Farrahmania faded. Fans and tabloid editors turned off the Fawcett and found some other darling; it might have been Travolta. She quit Charlie's Angels, hoping for movie stardom, but her first vehicle, the dark comedy Somebody Killed...
...term. It's clear, however, that if the nation has any real interest in reducing driving, unclogging our roads and cutting back on the carbon emissions that come from transportation, we need to get serious about overhauling our antiquated public-transit system - and that will cost billions. "Failing to fix this will be unacceptable," says Goldberg...
...costs a lot more to fix something that's broken than it does to prevent it from breaking down in the first place. Our ailing health-care system is long past the point at which we can stop it from breaking down, and it will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to fix. But I trust it's different for most of us. When it comes to individual health care, the model these days is not treating illness but preventing it. The prescription is prevention. Three-quarters of our health-care costs are attributable to chronic, preventable diseases...