Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceramics remain superconductors at high temperatures and can withstand intense magnetic fields, they can as yet carry only about a hundredth of the current capacity of conventional superconductors. And because the amount of current flowing through the magnetic field determines its strength, scientists are concerned that a quick fix may not be in sight. Warns GE's Robb: "What we need now is a second invention that would modify copper oxides to allow high currents to flow at high temperatures. There's a fifty-fifty chance that second invention will ever be made...
Unfortunately for Shoeless Joe Jackson, though, this statistic is "not officially recognized" by Major League Baseball because of Joe's ever-so-tenuous connection with the Black Sox game-fixing scandal of 1919. In an Orwellian fashion hardly expected from the national pasttime of a free country, Joe was banned from the game and his name was expunged from the recond books. This was despite the overwhelming evidence supporting his claim that he always played his hardest (he led both teams with a .375 average in the 1919 Series, and his twelve hits would still stand as a Series record...
...Cambridge school committee members focus their efforts on a rational review of policy issues. They resist the temptation to get bogged down in personalities-or the quick-fix school reform proposals trumpeted by ambitious states and national politicians," continues the report by the NEA, which is the nation's largest teachers' union...
...busying himself with the routine activities of any suburban homeowner: accompanying his sons Tom, 18, and Joe, 16, to the movies; attending services at the Episcopal church where his wife Linda is assistant pastor; shopping at a local hardware store and Radio Shack outlet to buy equipment for various fix-up projects around his Rockville, Md., house...
...eggs. He cannot, however, figure out how to turn on the stove. He flicks the garbage disposal on and off, and turns the dishwasher dials around, but to no avail. Finally, he yells, "Honey, how the hell does the stove work," and gets his wife out of bed to fix him breakfast...