Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need anything. When she found out we just wanted to talk, she withdrew even further back behind the partly-opened door and said she didn't know anything: "Go away." A Building and Grounds man was in the hall, on his way to the basement to try and fix the washing machines that the occupants of the University Road apartments are afraid to use. He nodded at us. "You're in a bad area. A girl was murdered here, two entrances over...
...Owen Gingerich Roy J. Glauber Martin Karplus Gerals Holton Sydney Colemana Mark Ptashne Roderick Firth Gwilym Owen Earl Kim Stanley Cavell Paul Cocks Francis Hutchins Alex Inkeles Thomas E. Crooks J. D. Watson Y. C. Ho Robert P. Burden Richard Cone Ralph Mitchell Howard C. Rachlin John Raper George Fix Nathaniel Carleton Abraham Flexer Peter Persham James C. Thomson Johan Hellebust Myron B. Fiering Charles F. Cleland Wassily Leontief Steve J. Poulos Ronald W. P. King J. R. Mcintosh Basur Rama Rao Lloyd A. Spielman Peter Hepler A. K. Solomon Henry Ehrenreich R. P. Levine Eric Carlson Alexander Dalgarno David...
With the new funds and its own stock, J.W.T. will be able to make additional acquisitions. It already owns a Puerto Rican insurance company and controls a New Jersey electronics firm. By establishing a market for the stock, the offering will fix its value and make it unnecessary for the company to buy back shares held by retiring executives. The offering will also help solve Seymour's problem of "how to give 7,500 employees in 55 offices around the world the idea of a real stake" in the firm's annual gross. J.W.T. will be able...
...religion, creeping technology, how to love the unlovable, and even doomsday, which, as he gently observes, "could easily be next Wednesday." His first book, Player Piano (1952). told how a crew of smoothly programmed engineers take over America. Another, Cat's Cradle, began with a reporter trying to fix the whereabouts of important Americans at the time the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and ended with the end of the world. A third, Mother Night, explored the guilt of a patriotic spy and propaganda agent, "a man," as Vonnegut summed him up, "who served evil too openly and good...
...minutes later, Tim threw up his hands in irritation. Eric was still trying to fix up the camera. "Forget it," said Tim. "Let's do something right. Pack up. We'll go to the stables...