Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes the earplug out of her ear to fix her hair. "You know, it'd be nice if people knew we weren't just cold-blooded. We do have feelings, we don't like it if people hang up on us, we don't like it if people are rude to us. And we do like it if people talk...
...dropped again. In May he sold the country's $41 million in gold reserves stored at Fort Knox to pay short-term debts, further demonstrating that his government was, as a local journalist puts it, "like a junkie raiding Grandma's silver cabinet for one more fix." Today Costa Rica has no foreign exchange left...
...they have managed to reirrigate only 30 acres. But even this small step forward-or backward-has begun to change some of the lives of the handful of farmers on the slopes around Patallacta. One peasant has requested and secured a $400 loan from Kendall to pay workers to fix a canal near his mountainside plot. "The fact that he would ask indicates the idea can be sold," says Kendall. "If you got 100 men to work three months together in rebuilding a system, you could turn large tracts of barren land into production...
...seems a boring banner under which to rally, and Tsongas does little to shake that feeling. Argument and reason are not enough to sway most of us; we want something to believe in, and the very principles of moderation that have put us in our current fix seem hardly enough. The slow steady path of a barge is less attractive that the swooping of a sailboat; it is worth noting that both vessels eventually reach their destinations, and that barges when they sink go down much more irrevocably...
...around until the credits end and the projector shuts off--"but Mom, I want to see who the gaffer is!" But it's not worth the price of admission just to see John Derek play out his sexual fantasies about his wife. If you really need a Bo Derek fix, pick up a copy of Playboy--at least you won't have to hear her talk...