Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satisfied with his first job. He is stuffing feathers in down coats for a clothing manufacturer at $4.50 an hour. Brother Thanh is tinkering at home. "I found this broken television set in the garbage on the street, and I'm trying to find out how to fix it," he says...
...when the economy will improve: If people expect an instant fix, they're wrong. But what you can have relatively early is a restoration of confidence that inflation will not continue at an ever accelerating rate. That's important because a lot of what fans inflation is the lack of confidence that anybody can do anything about...
...announced it will lay off 214 employees in January. "This city is like a house that's been neglected for twelve years," says Voinovich. Indeed, an aging storm sewer system regularly floods Cleveland basements. Swimming pools were closed last summer because the city could not afford to fix broken plumbing. Voinovich wants to raise revenues for such maintenance needs by increasing the city income tax from 1.5% to 2%. Last week, on the second anniversary of default, the city council voted to put that proposal, even though voters defeated it in November, back on the ballot in February. Says...
...popular figure among the 20,000 nationalist guerrillas still under arms. It was feared that his conviction might spark a violent reaction from ZANU militants. On the other hand, his acquittal seemed likely to enrage the country's 190,000 whites, prompting charges of a political fix and accelerating a white exodus that is now running at a rate of more than 1,000 a month. Wary of all these dangers, Mugabe insisted that the law should take its course...
There is no quick fix for the Everything Crisis caused by energy prices...