Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city is divided into 54 local school boards, which supposedly handle local needs, but everything is still red-taped by Livingston Street. Sometimes it takes a year to get a film from the central library; highly trained teachers languish on cafeteria patrol; requests to fix sagging roofs vanish in a Byzantine fog. For years, the bureaucracy left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year...
...running battle that has raged for the past three years between the Government and the U.S. drug industry was shifted last week to the courts. Charging conspiracy to fix prices and limit competition, the Justice Department won a grand jury antitrust indictment against three of the nation's largest antibiotic producers and their chief executives. The defendants: American Cyanamid and its chairman, Wilbur G. Malcolm; Charles Pfizer & Co. and Chairman John E. McKeen; Bristol-Myers Co. and President Frederic N. Schwartz...
Private Reasons. The disagreement came over timing. Rusk flew into Paris hoping to persuade his partners that there should be immediate contact with Russia to set a date and fix an agenda for a Berlin conference. This, he argued, would regain the initiative for the West. The French and West Germans were unwilling, and each has a private reason. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is in the midst of an election campaign and in particular wants no discussion of possible bargaining concessions or muddying up the electioneering before election day, on Sept...
...nuclear submarines. When they poke a whip antenna above the surface to listen to Transit they will be able to tell where they are within 600 ft. A navigator who shoots the sun or stars with a sextant in good weather does an excellent job if he gets a fix that is accurate within one and a half miles...
...inspector, and TV sets that have already been cleared for shipment are pulled back at random for further testing. Six years ago, when most other makers of TV sets began switching heavily to printed circuits, which were cheaper to make but difficult to repair, Zenith stayed with easier-to-fix hand-wired circuitry. In gratitude, thousands of TV repairmen became enthusiastic pushers of Zenith products...