Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Truckers!" growls a manager. "They say they are in a hurry. They complain if the service isn't fast. We fix it so they can have their fuel pumped while they are eating and put in telephones on every table so they can check with their dispatch- ers. They could be out of here in half an hour. But what do they do? They sit and talk for two hours...
...with a capital A) is slippery at best, and the debate about their relationship remains a moot point on which many commentators have impaled themselves. In Floubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes winds thin strips of fact and interpretation around Flaubert like gauze bandage in an attempt to fix a rough outline, a makeshift profile--to make the Invisible Man of letters visible...
...Phillips, a recent arrival from TIME's Atlanta bureau, took advantage of the favorable rates to buy a dressing table for her new apartment. "I searched one of the famous Parisian flea markets for an antique coiffeuse," she says. "It is precisely what I wanted: a place to fix my coiffure. I found one 19th century piece in mint condition and at a good price, but it had just been bought by another American, who was paying an additional $500 to ship it to New York. Maybe the exchange rate is getting a little too favorable." Phillips, a budding oenophile...
...Phillips, a recent arrival from TIME's Atlanta bureau, took advantage of the favorable rates to buy a dressing table for her new apartment. "I searched one of the famous Parisian flea markets for an antique coiffeuse," she says. "It is precisely what I wanted: a place to fix my coiffure. I found one 19th century piece in mint condition and at a good price, but it had just been bought by another American, who was paying an additional $500 to ship it to New York. Maybe the exchange rate is getting a little too favorable." Phillips, a budding oenophile...
...they clearly mean something like a World War II-style triumph ending with unconditional surrender. One lesson of Viet Nam, observes George Christian, who was L.B.J.'s press secretary, is that "it is very tough for Americans to stick in long situations. We are always looking for a quick fix." But nuclear missiles make the unconditional-surrender kind of war an anachronism. Viet Nam raised, and left unsolved for the next conflict, the question posed by Lincoln Bloomfield, an M.I.T. professor of political science who once served on Jimmy Carter's National Security Council: "How is it that...