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...foreign exchange, the government of President Kaunda prefers to import new vehicles through aid programs rather than buy the spare parts necessary to repair the old ones. In Zambia and Tanzania, locomotives badly needed to haul copper and agricultural produce sit on railroad sidings because no one can fix their hydraulic-brake systems...
...nuance and doubt on top (often de Kooning, like Arshile Gorky, could not bring himself to give the final form to a hand or the side of a face, leaving it a worried blur), they were iron below. It was de Kooning's draftsmanship that enabled him to fix his parings from other artists-from Gorky, John Graham and, above all, Picasso-to a firm core. One can cite the Picassoan acquisitions in Seated Woman, circa 1940 | (the hair from Dora Maar, the breasts and calves from Marie-Thérèse Walter), but the drawing, the rhythm...
Councilor David E. Sullivan also thought first of his constituents. "I want Santa Harvard to fix up the Craigie Arms building and give it back to the tenants of Cambridge," Sullivan said. The building has been the focus of a long struggle by Harvard Real Estate to change its rent-controlled apartments into financially lucrative, high-cost condominiums...
...split-up of A T & T, they are not the customers. As anyone who has lived abroad knows, the U.S. has had the best and most reasonable telephone service in the world. The Government should have heeded the old saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix...
...results are mixed. When the rebels took over Jucuarán last September, 80% of the 30,000 people living in and around the city fled. Save for banning liquor, the guerrillas altered little; the public school remained open, and local officials stayed in office. Yet promises to fix the water system and provide a paramedic have gone unfulfilled, and residents are bitter about the destruction of a bridge that linked the town to the coastal highway...