Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applying pressure. As they see it, when the pressure gets high enough a few months from now--meaning when enough special- interest groups rise in rebellion against the threatened cuts--there will occur, as if by magic, what former Budget Director David Stockman used to call "the big fix." This comes when everybody reluctantly agrees to both some budget cuts and some tax increases. One formula being mentioned is known as 20-20-20, meaning $20 billion in new taxes and $20 billion less for both military and nonmilitary spending...
...FACT THAT Jill is being watched by the Ministry for complaining about the Buttle arrest, combined with the fact that the real Mr. Tuttle, (a working class, bowling-league type of terrorist played by Robert DeNiro), arrives one night to fix his air conditioner and sabotage his building, sends Lowry on a collision course with the government...
...parole would continue to be lowered until the federally mandated limit of 7,019 prisoners was reached. Some progress has already been made. As of last week the inmate population was down to 7,231, a decline of more than 500 since October. But no one expects a quick fix to the festering problems of Tennessee's prisons...
Devito said eight maintenance employees worked to patch together lines to restore power to the affected buildings. He said all the blacked-out buildings were linked to one of the three main lines serving the University, and that the repair crew began work late last night to find and fix the exact trouble point...
...administrators decided to play Keystone Cops last summer, I'm confident that the same would have been true for the 1985-86 CUE Guide," Ozment said. "Some people decided to fix something that wasn't broke, and in the process, they broke...