Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked dorm crew, cleaning toilets for my extra pocket money, some of which I allotted at the account-busting rate of about 60 dollars a month to my club. One year the club roof sprung a leak. Where did they come up with the six grand needed to fix it? And who paid for the food served at the dinners, or the electric bill, or the City of Cambridge land taxes, which have tripled in the past five years? Who paid for the glass panes that had to be installed in the back window? What about the flooding basement...
Booth does not fix engines or work in a mechanic's shop. He travels the nation taking photographs of "members of the American motorcycling community"--a diverse group of people ranging from pre-teen racing cyclists to members of the infamous Hell's Angels gang...
...perfect vehicle for Allen's shlemiel persona, here called Allan Felix. Felix's wife has just left him, and he bemoans his impossibly bad luck with women. His harried businessman friend Dick Christie (Nick Raposo) arrives with his flaky wife Linda (Lucy Soutter) to comfort him. They try to fix him up with dates until Felix realizes that he's fallen in love with Linda, and that through his relationship with her he's finally overcome his total lack of confidence with women. Along the way, Felix, a writer for a film magazine, is visited by the ghost of Humphrey...
...continue owning the Herald and WFXT-TV in Boston, and the New York Post and WNYW-TV in Manhattan. But the congressional measure urged by Kennedy forbade the FCC to extend the time period of the waivers that were then in effect. Kennedy said Murdoch had the "fix in" with the FCC. For its part, the Herald tweaked Kennedy...
...contrast to human specialists, who were right in 42.5% to 62.5% of cases. Still, Mycin did not have a clue that it was diagnosing a human being, nor did it have any idea what a human is. In fact, it was perfectly capable of trying to prescribe penicillin to fix a broken window. All it could do was rigidly test the applicability of various rules to pieces of data. This led critics like Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor of computer science at M.I.T., to dismiss expert systems like Mycin as "Potemkin villages. You move a little to the left...