Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sets everywhere, James Brown or Elvis billowing from the kitchen radio, and a clock on the wall that appears to be five hours slow. "We like to think of it as being seven hours fast," says Tomita, long resigned to the incongruity of being an electronics master who cannot fix a clock...
Smith's system was designed to enthrone not the businessman but the consumer. Far from admiring merchants, he looked upon them as a greedy lot who were forever trying to bypass the market by conspiring to fix prices and hold down wages. But he thought, somewhat naively, that such monopolistic schemes could prosper only with the active aid of government?which, in his day, they often got. So he advocated complete laissez-faire. Government, he said, should stop trying to regulate trade, cease all intervention in the market and let free competition work its wonders...
...FINANCIAL FIX. For almost a month, city and state officials and a handful of private citizens chosen by Governor Hugh Carey had wrestled with New York's deepening financial dilemma (TIME, June 16). The city's profligate borrowing had wiped out the national market for its securities: no more notes could be issued until the city started putting its finances in order. That meant the kind of retrenchment that Mayor Abe Beame and other city Democrats find painful to contemplate. For a while, they and the Republicans controlling the state senate could not seem to face...
...case, it was largely the threat posed by the Gnostics that forced the early Christian church to codify its beliefs and fix the list of authoritative Bible books. As orthodoxy won out, Gnostic scriptures were destroyed, and for centuries the religion was known chiefly from church attacks against...
...down here," said captain Blair Brooks. "It's a good way to wind down from the year and even though we've only missed last year, it seems like we haven't been here for a real long time. It's even not that bad helping to fix the place up: it's good to feel part of something...