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...different people from one night to the next, that takes something that not every man has--it takes a lot of heart. For that much respect he gives me, I give him all I can. If Stewart tells me there's a problem, I'd spend my time to fix it because he cared enough to say, 'Hey, lend me a hand...
...estimate that each 1?-per-gal. decline saves airlines about $90 million a year. Fuel, in fact, accounts for fully 30% of airlines' total operating expenses. Notes Donald McGuire, a vice president of Piedmont Airlines, a healthy carrier that earned $23.8 million in 1982: "Any time you can fix one-third of your problems at once, you gotta be happy...
While the private gifts generated by these local wish lists may ease budget aches, they do not solve the financial crunch. It is difficult to find donations to fill potholes or fix bridges. Admits Athens City Manager Marvin Bolinger: "We aren't going to have a street or a new sewer plant donated. The basic needs still need to be met. But this is just helping with the little extras that you'd like to have...
MacLeish took a more workmanlike view of the art of writing poetry than most of his contemporary poets and critics. He questioned what he saw as romantic and modernist assumptions that all art must be subjective and original, writing 1932 that the task of contemporary poets was to "fix momentarily or for many generations the aspect of the world we see. It is enough to do that and to do it with self-forgetfulness and humanity...
Regardless of undercoating or other protective measures taken by their owners, some Fiat cars rusted rapidly on U.S. roads in the 1970s. That problem and others led wags to proclaim Fiat an acronym for Fix It Again Tony. Partly as a result, sales dropped from a high of 100,511 cars in 1975 to last year's 14,113. Last week Fiat announced that it was pulling out of the American market...