Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seyrig), the sequence and rhythm of the scenes are anecdotal. After a brief assignation-which gets him fired from the detective agency-Antoine takes another job as a TV repairman. When her parents go on a holiday, Christine pulls a tube from the family TV and calls Antoine to fix it. They spend the night together and write love notes next morning at the breakfast table. Out for a morning walk, they meet a trench-coated stranger, a specter of the maturity that will eventually destroy their romance and their innocence. They barely treat it seriously...
...spokesman turns to Bloomfield and smiles: "We don't want to discuss it," he says. Whereupon Bloomfield, apparently worried about how long his building will be apprehended, begins to explain all the work he and his people are doing to fix things up. Someone interrupts with the cry, "What about Jelpy?" (alluding to a popular lecturer who didn't get tenure). Then another person, nearer to Bloomfield, tells him that reform is no substitute for abolition. At this point the group started walking in circles, an action which resulted in their looping out of the front door of the building...
...federal jury convicted Cyanamid, Pfizer and Bristol-Myers of plotting to fix the price of tetracycline-and the companies are still appealing the verdict. Upjohn and Squibb were named co-conspirators but not defendants. Encouraged by the verdict, 39 states, ten cities and counties, 15 private hospitals and 17 miscellaneous groups claimed damages for overcharges on the drug, which has been sold since 1953. Sales amounted to well over $100 million annually. The Justice Department charged that the capsules cost an average 1.60 to produce, but sold for as much as 510. Whatever the merits of the damage claims...
...World War II, when a college education became the property of the middle class, so paltry a goal as the removal of "a little ignorance" would no longer do. Colleges had to justify themselves with "newer" ideas and "newer" research. Since the professors had all the answers, let them fix up society. So began the government contracts and the ties with business--in short, the philosophy of "activism," Barzun writes, which persists on campus today...
...everybody works to the point of exhaustion. Often, in the most desperate of cases, a producer will bring in additional writers to "doctor" or, hopefully, save the show. Alexander Cohen, Dear World's producer, used his wife, Hildy Parks, and another librettist, Joe Masteroff (who wrote Cabaret) to fix up his production. Neither of these show doctors will receive program credit for their work, but they will get a flat sum of money, and, if their rewriting is substantial, perhaps a percentage royalty...