Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Facing this latest delay, Administration officials are urging patience and insist they are moving more programs on more fronts faster than anyone has tried to do before. "People want a quick, clean, decisive resolution to this stuff, they want us to just fix it and have it be over with," says a senior Administration official. "We are moving in a relatively short period of time on a scale that I don't think you've ever seen an Administration...
...going to take place and within a fairly short time span." The cuts are necessary to free up funds to modernize equipment. On Tuesday, Serdyukov said that only 10% of military equipment is up-to-date. Medvedev said it would be better to buy new hardware rather than fix and update aging equipment; he plans to spend $43 billion on weapons purchases, despite the economy...
...economy. Democrats are not the only ones who go to the hospital, attend college, or buy gas; these expenses affect liberals, conservatives, and independents alike. Given the long-standing weaknesses of our economy, Obama’s supposedly “liberal” proposal presents the most viable fix for the problems currently afflicting all Americans...
...power has come to an abrupt end - even as opinion polls show that the public remains by his side. To most grownups, seven weeks is an eyeblink (in baseball it's called spring training), but along the Acela line it is much ... too ... long to wait for Obama to fix the economy. And so the doomsday chorus began: He's trying to do too much. He's doing too little. His bank bailout is too complicated. His health-care plan is hollow. The great orator can't communicate his priorities. His priorities are clear - but screwed...
...unquestioned urgency. Political opportunists will no doubt jockey to claim credit or place blame, but ultimately everyone is looking to the Administration for leadership in this area, and only ideologues will grumble if Obama manages to find a way through it. The President and his team were elected to fix the economy, a senior Republican acknowledges, but the electorate is less clear, he argues, on the rest of the Obama agenda...