Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...praise-mongering is right in step with the tone of photos. Duncan is a slave to his subjects, a photographer who glorifies rather than analyzes, who retouches instead of revealing. Impeccably crafted and consummately executed, Red Shoes only serves to massage some show-business egos and provide a temporary fix for the People Magazine crowd...
...hour work weeks-figuring, designing, double-checking and, as it turned out, sometimes starting over. At the same time, NASA was preparing for another rescue, the repair in space of the Solar Maximum Mission scientific satellite damaged in 1980. The space agency set out to fix the sophisticated $75 million instrument on the eleventh shuttle flight last April. But Astronaut George Nelson was unable to grasp the Solar Max with a device mounted on the arms of his backpack. An alternate technique worked, but the failed grappler plan had to be abandoned. In June, Astronaut Dale Gardner, who would...
...actually alleviating the problem. Where do the Democrats propose to put the toxic waste? Decrease military spending and put it into education? Surveys show that the public is overwhelmingly opposed to significant military budget cuts, and it still believes that social spending should be deposed. There are no quick-fix solutions to America's problems, regardless of the public's desire to believe in them. Issues are not created by desperate political parties; they arise out of crisis...
Finally, last April, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe officially announced that Britain would have to surrender administration, but remained determined to fix terms whereby its colony could continue flourishing in the freewheeling style to which it was accustomed. That move prompted the Chinese for the first time to agree to address specific issues, and in June a "joint working group" began to thrash out the details...
...stressing that the first years of school profoundly affect a stu dent's future performance. Leslie Williams, associate professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College, concludes, "There's a current notion that' if we start correctly on the ground floor, maybe we can fix things...