Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the Brady Bill soon to be law, the next major gun-control battle is likely to be over the rules for licensing gun dealers, which Schumer's bill would tighten. In August, President Clinton called for a review of these lax federal procedures, which currently provide a one-year...
Although whether Hubble is completely fixed won't be known until about two months of tests are finished, the crew was confident and euphoric. Said Jeffrey Hoffman after he and Story Musgrave had installed a replacement for Hubble's Wide Field/Planetary Camera: "We've got basically a new telescope up...
Smith bluntly concedes that GM is starting out well behind the rest of the Detroit pack. "The problem was never the people," he says. "It was the screwed-up structure we had. We had to change it. It took us years to understand that. You go through a denial phase...
The Gilbert and Sullivan Players are masters at creating spectacle. Many of the show's scenes are buttressed with cleverly-orchestrated background action: A sailor has his telescope fixed on Buttercup's buxom figure as she enters; the ship's crew produces small pocket-combs in preparing to receive a...
There should be a way to recognize that something is too bad without saying it can be fixed. To do otherwise is to fail to protect the truly vulnerable, the truly prejudged, the truly disadvantaged. There is another way to proceed. Let the current trend continue until finally, after years...