Word: fixedly
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...fare consists not of American-style burgers but of Russian-style blini, the traditional thin pancakes, delivered with chain-restaurant consistency at fast-food prices. For 43 rubles (less than $2), you can have a blini with butter; for 182 rubles (about $7.50), you get your fast-food fix with red caviar...
...Brad Anderson has embraced the program and has applied it to 80% of the staff at headquarters. Ressler and Thompson, who have since left Best Buy to found a consulting company called CultureRx, have co-authored a book detailing their experiment. Why Work Sucks - and How to Fix It is due out June 2. They spoke to TIME's Lisa Takeuchi Cullen...
...investment is changing lives and could help create jobs. The country desperately needs more employment opportunities. About a third of Cambodians are 15 years old or younger, and they'll be entering the workforce in droves over the next two decades. Hundreds of NGOs are already busy trying to fix Cambodia, and about 20% of the government's total budget still comes from foreign aid. The prospect of a tourism boom coupled with the start of domestic oil production offers the tantalizing possibility of a more independent way forward. With foreign aid, "you'll always be living according to somebody...
Your cover story should have been titled, "How the President Could Encourage, Cajole and Bully Congress to Try to Fix the Economy" [May 26]. For each of your economic issues, the President has little, if any, direct or unilateral power. No doubt, every President has secretly shared Theodore Roosevelt's daydream: "If I could only be President and Congress too for just 10 minutes." But without an explanation as to the President's actual powers, your article sets up yet another generation of Americans to be disillusioned when their chosen candidate fails to produce the promised manna that...
Explaining the situation to Mattie was easier than I expected. She was a little deaf, but still a sharp cookie. She got the picture. "So, when do you fix it?" she wanted to know. I told her to make an appointment with my secretary and gave her the name of the nearest hospital, where I'm on staff...