Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yet, the rest of the world held its breath yesterday as the space station temporarily lost the use of its primary and backup oxygen generators. Mir's crew swiftly fixed the problem, but Russian ground staff went home for the night without telling the Americans about it, touching off a...
Thus Evelyn Anderson, 82, a resident of the mammoth Sun City retirement community outside Phoenix, paid an astonishing $10,562 last year to a repairman who fixed some sprinklers and, while at it, wangled a loan with a phony sob story. "I felt sorry for him, going through a divorce...
Frustration is high because free trade has not yet fixed the accumulated damage from past economic mismanagement. So while the NAFTA generation boasts burgeoning numbers of entrepreneurs, engineers and financiers, the unemployment rate among young adults is twice as high as that of older people--a situation that sends more...
The People's Republic is still a police state with one firm red line: Thou shalt not overthrow the Communist Party government. Yet the vast majority of Chinese people are surprisingly free. The society is so rapidly reshaping itself that even its own leaders are often overwhelmed. This vast, tumultuous...
A petition signed by more than 100 English concentrators last month called in part for reforms of the general exam which many seniors, including Emily J. Wood '97, say they felt assumed "a fixed canon of text we should know, when the department all along has been telling us [otherwise...