Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creation programs like CETA and the Community Services Administration. In June, the President vetoed a bill by Rep. Henry B. Gonzales (DTex) to aid the embattled housing industry--thus thwarting potential recovery in the slumping timber and construction industries. And the President most recently showed his animus toward "quick fix" job creation by vetoing a $14.1 billion supplemental appropriations bill because it contained a "budget-busting" senior citizens employment program...
...stress Israel's innocence. In an effort to absolve the Israeli forces of guilt, the ad claimed that they had prevented a "much greater loss of life" from taking place. As Jews around the world called for a commission of inquiry that would probe the massacre and attempt to fix the blame for what happened, Begin refused to budge. To conduct an inquiry, he argued, would be tantamount to a confession of guilt...
...district clearly needs a fix of some kind. Once one of the state's fastest-growing areas, with an enviable mix of farming and light and heavy industry, it is suffering the worst battering since the Depression. Unemployment among workers, nearly 50% of them blue collar, is running above the state average of 12.5% in four of the district's five counties...
...Canada, a Soviet satellite, equipped with special electronic "ears" to hear the beeps of small planes or ships in distress, picked up the downed aircraft's automatic emergency beacon and relayed the signals to an antenna outside Ottawa. There a computer quickly used them to obtain a navigational "fix" on the crash site. Within hours, a helicopter plucked the three men out of the wilderness, injured but alive...
Access to the tunnels is restricted to the maintenance crews that service them around the clock. Two men work full-time in the tunnels, and other shifts are rotated between a group of Buildings and Grounds workers. Workers fix leaks, operate valves and inspect the pipes, paying special attention to the pipe joints which expand and contract in response to the steam's heat. Failure of these joints to slide freely could create safety hazard, says Chester P. White, one of the two full-time tuneless. "If a line ever went there'd be no getting out" he warns...