Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divots with Britain's bookmakers, who installed him as the 2-to-1 favorite, or with his fellow pros. "Don't you worry about old Arnie," drawled Sam Snead. "'There ain't nothin' wrong with him that a two-stroke lead won't fix. He's just trying to sweet-talk that tough old course into lyin' down and playin' dead...
...course. But for all the functions the exchange performs without human attention, Bell is aware that all its components can hardly work right all the time. To avoid employing human troubleshooters, Engineer Sin Hsuin Tsiang has trained the machine to spot its own breakdowns and tell humans how to fix them...
...alert for bright ideas that will help them find their quarry. One promising trick is to station seven or eight men with powerful telescopic theodolites on the edges of the impact area. They note the direction of the dust cloud raised by missile impact; then computation gives an accurate fix...
What concerns Ullastres is Spain's industry and commerce-creaky, antiquated, often monopolistic. Among its worst aspects are those crude relics of fascism, the labor-management Sindicatos, which fix workers' wages as well as employers' prices, forbid strikes by workers or layoffs by bosses. Collective bargaining within the syndicates has been allowed in the past three years, but government red tape and inflexible employers have left the ordinary workers of Spain embittered...
...revolution of rising expectations has not been satisfied by Communism even in its own countries. The big meaning of Russia's food troubles is that the Communists are in an ironic fix: they are materialists who are bungling materialism...