Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French Connection doesn't neglect to mention the real losers in this world without good guys: the ones who suffer in the poverty of New York's black-Latin neighborhoods, suffer a little less when they can afford to buy a high-priced fix of the businessmen's mass-marketed wares, and suffer a lot more when the narcotics detectives descend on them on their way to making the big bust, beating them for whatever information they can supply and sending them up for possession of controlled drugs...
...Nixon Administration's chief trustbuster, Assistant Attorney General Richard McLaren slapped down hard on conglomerate mergers and generally set a blistering pace. On a single day this month, he filed suit against the Chicago Board of Trade, challenging its right to fix commission rates on commodity-futures trading, and urged...
...them. It is a place isolated, almost abstracted, from the rest of the world. The villagers regard David with a cordial disdain. Amy is seen as one of their own who has deserted them and returned with slightly lofty airs. Some of the men of the village, while helping fix up a rented farmhouse for the couple, make casual sport of ogling Amy and discussing her attractions...
...that's what Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said, 'Sooner or later we shall all fail'. It remains for us to fix our eyes on that point, and get there...
Many problems have now been worked out. The Zehlendorf fire department, for example, can go to Steinstucken, and an electrician can enter to fix the refrigerator in the town's only grocery. Previously, both were barred. Steinstuckeners refused to apply for special G.D.R. travel permits to go to their jobs and classrooms in West Berlin and they now have West Berlin identity cards with "unhindered access" stamped on them...