Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...methods," he said, citing the recent fatal mugging of Poet Konstantin Boga-tyryov, the Russian translator of Rainer Maria Rilke who had protested against Soviet civil rights violations. While the scholar was dying of a fractured skull in the hospital, Amalrik went on, KGB agents ordered the doctors to "fix him so he will come out an idiot," then threatened the physicians when they refused to comply with their order. Still, Amalrik expressed hope that he could continue to struggle against repression. "My leaving the Soviet Union is not exactly a victory," he said. "I would call it a tactical...
...that while his products are in demand everywhere, "I don't dare produce on a large scale" because of the taxes. In order to avoid records of transactions and hence a tax on earnings, there has even been something of a return to barter. Example: a dentist will fix a plumber's teeth in exchange for having a sink repaired...
...facility, like that used in biological warfare testing.) The proponents cite how the proceedings would follow strict federal guidelines. But those guidelines were drawn up by none other than scientists like themselves--some of whom are interested in pursuing the research. In any other field, the contestants would scream "fix," but the seeming independence and "stature" of the men involved seems to block any conflict of interest charges...
...making up in patriotic zeal what they lack in timeliness. New York's John Holt, for instance, plans to print the text of the Declaration on a special page of this week's Journal with an exhortation to readers "to separate it from the rest of the paper and fix it up, in open view, in their houses...
Behind him, classmates and their wives strolled over to shake hands with Goldberg and Bok. As the classmates approached, Goldberg would shout out a name and a greeting, while Bok would fix a fast glance at everyone's plastic name badge...