Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stated time-she specifies an "English hour," or sometimes in Latin America, an "American hour." The Russians are equally relaxed about time. In the Middle East, an invitation often does not even include the time, but can be "Come for the evening." For the host or hostess to fix a minute or even an hour implies that the guest is not wanted before then, an unforgivable breach of hospitality...
...home it is psychic raiment that she lacks. She cannot sleep and will not wash. She longs to write a novel ("That would fix a lot of people"), but cannot write a paragraph. Her mother drives her crazy simply by living in the same house. With the awful logic of the mad, she considers and rejects any amelioration of her condition; she is under a "glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air." Rescued from a suicide attempt, she starts the long process of mental repair in an asylum...
...like President Anwar Sadat. In the Land of the Sphinx, he looms human just like you and me. I feel confident that he will fix his priorities right. For much too long, these were lost in the haze of grandeur and gun smoke. Now the interest of his people will come first. The abatement of Russian infiltration into the heart of the Arab world will be the next task. And if peace with Israel will mean putting a stop to 20 years of crippling war, he will...
...what about me? I went to college for four years for this? What am I doing here? Well, my father says it's a learning experience. My mom says come home and I'll fix up your room. My room was fine the way it was. Dad is closer- my experience at the CRIMSON does contain a smattering of the real world. There are people who want to make sure that "negroes" do not answer their classified ad, and people who place ads that would appall even the mildest feminist. But if I wanted the real world would I have...
Each of the needed steps will require a high degree of international cooperation. This will be painful for foreign nations that have jealously guarded their power to fix official values for their currencies, and for U.S. officials who have argued that Washington can manage the domestic economy and design its foreign policies without worrying too much about the effects on the international monetary system. All countries, however, have an interest in preserving a reasonably free and highly flexible system of converting one currency into another, and thus increasing the global circulation of goods, funds and travelers. That interest should override...