Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Single Stitches. Lying on the operating table beside its owner, the arm was still attached only by suture threads. To fix it firmly, an orthopedic surgeon drove a stainless-steel rod into the broken upper end of the humerus, through its squishy marrow center, until the end of the rod projected into the shoulder. He fitted the broken bone ends together, pushing the rod down into the marrow of the undamaged lower bone. If new bone grows well enough to make a solid union, the rod may later be withdrawn; otherwise it will be left in place...
...While not denying the importance of preventive and treatment programs which take account both of the total neighborhood and the total person, it is also important that those engaged in the management of delinquency fix their sights on more specific targets in terms of criminogenic traits and factors. A greater specificity of endeavor becomes possible on the findings of the new study...
...United States-for the people as a whole-is going to be good for every American company and for every American union.'' Unjustified wage and price demands, said the President, are equally "contrary to the national interest." His Administration "has not undertaken and will not undertake" to fix prices or wages or to intervene in every little old labor dispute. Instead, it depends on labor and management to reach settlements within "guidelines" suggested by the Administration. The basic Kennedy credo for labor: wage hikes should hang on productivity increases, thereby enabling labor to seek its gains...
From 1948 to March 1961, charged the indictment, various defendants conspired, in violation of the Sherman Act. to fix prices and rig bids on "open-die steel forgings" (large steel shapes, mostly shafts and axles, formed by hammering or pressing the metal rather than by rolling or casting). Some of the fixing and rigging sessions took place at meetings of a New York outfit called the Open Die Forging Institute, according to the indictment, and at these meetings the institute's secretary was excused, "with the result that the minutes did not reflect such discussions." The conspiracy...
...banjo. The lyrics had a certain down-to-earth reality, but the tune-well, it was the kind usually played on that big organ at convention time. Phrased as a message to Congress, Kennedy catalogued all the complaints about modern life he could think of and then promised to fix them all up in a brave new world...