Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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General Motors will recall some 470,000 Cadillacs and pay an $11 million fine in what the Justice Department said was the first-ever court-ordered automobile recall. At issue: a computer chip, installed in 1991, that fixed a stalling problem by enriching the fuel when the heater or air...
Jayne also noted that Dr. Charles A. Czeisler '74, director of the lab, has found that shift workers suffer more from rapid rotations, as opposed to fixed shifts or shifts that rotate every few weeks. Jayne jokes, however, that in the interest of science "[Czeisler] doesn't practice what he...
Dole knew last Wednesday morning at about 9 o'clock, six hours before Powell's official announcement. The Senate majority leader was flying to New Hampshire aboard a chartered Gulfstream II to receive the endorsement of New Hampshire Governor Steve Merrill, a coup of major proportions. Merrill's conservative credentials...
We must, in other words, demand a peace agreement of the Camp David variety: firm, fixed, accepted without reservation by all sides. At Camp David, the issues were resolved, the lines were hard, the timetables were clear. There was no papering over--and no need for anything resembling the massive...
This optimistic but continually critical approach, writes Neil Postman, is exactly what American schools need. His latest book, The End of Education, is packed with similarly unconventional ideas which he hopes can reinvigorate our floundering educational system. Textbooks should be abolished, he says because they knowledge as finals and fixed...