Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curriculum is unpretentious but practical. It includes courses on such subjects as how to fix a faucet, prepare a tax return or get a better job. The teachers seem eminently well qualified. Heidi Fiske, vice president of Institutional Investors Systems, presides over a course entitled "How to Leverage Your Talents into Working for Yourself or Starting Your Own Small Business"; Lynn Caine, who wrote the best-selling autobiographical Widow, teaches "The Widow." All this and more is available at Womanschool, a newly opened institution designed to teach women how to cope in a male-dominated society...
...natural outgrowth of such a belief is the theory that trainers fix all the races so they can pick up big payoffs on their horses when they win. Beyer refutes Mr. D., and insures us that trainers are basically an honest group, not knowing any more than an astute handicapper about who is going to win a race...
Dexter Kamilewicz, MIT associate director of housing, said the institute had made "substantial efforts since May 1974 to fix the very complicated heating system," and reduce temperatures in the apartments...
After every point, Fisher would lean against the wall, fix his shoes, below on his hands, do whatever he could to gather strength for the next rally. After he won the next two games. Fisher went out to speak with his coach...
...Republican leader: "His whole ethos is bound up in the motorcar syndrome of the state of Michigan." Still, there were some hot debates. To induce energy companies to develop more domestic oil and alternative sources of energy, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders argued strongly that the Government should fix a "floor" below which prices of oil could not drop; Simon protested vehemently that price guarantees violate free, market principles. The matter I went to Ford three times for a decision before he compromised by asking Congress for authority to set a price floor but not committing himself...