Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Exhibition, a box office sensation in Paris, had its U.S. premiere last week at the New York Film Festival. The porno queen herself flew in for the screening with her current lover, Didier Faya, 20, in tow. "He was a plumber," explains Beccarie matter-of-factly. "He came to fix my pipes...
...last minute, however, Carey and Levitt devised another temporary fix, by legerdemain. Although Levitt would not buy MAC bonds, he did agree to buy $250 million worth of the otherwise unsalable state notes, thus providing the state with money to lend to the city. In addition, Levitt said he might "conceivably" buy another $250 million worth of state notes, if they could not be sold to anyone else. That should enable the city to get through October and probably November...
...them.* I could look along and see presses as far as I could see at Volkswagen; and when I look at Rubery Owen, I think if there is anything that didn't go on the ark, we have got it. Only once did anyone bother to try and fix up Darlaston. That was in 1960, when Princess Margaret visited Rubery Owen. The factory had such a face-lift as we couldn't recognize it. Wherever they decided she was going to go, the paint went on. I think they must've touched up the clouds. Looks...
...puffs through eight to ten pipeloads of tobacco a day and worries about it. He asks for two olives in his martini. Swimming is his favorite sport, early morning the best time of his day, and a Sunday-afternoon round of golf is his special weekly fix...
...given such cacophonous names as "stagflation," "slumpflation," "infession" and "inflump." Breaking that inflation-recession cycle is rapidly becoming the major problem, not only of capitalism, but of democracy. Inflationary recession is more likely than anything else to make voters turn to an authoritarian fascist or socialist system that would fix price, production and employment levels by fiat, and permit no argument...