Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton announced today that he'll convene a bipartisan meeting of governors and mayors in January in an effort to fix "our country's broken welfare system." In a clear effort to beat GOP welfare-bashers to the high ground as part of his centrist post-election swing, Clinton -- in a statement -- described the current welfare system as a "bad deal for the taxpayers who pay the bills and for the families who are trapped on it." Newly-empowered GOP leaders, meanwhile, have their own designs on the issue: House Republicans want to abolish more than 100 social programs...
...Iranian immigrants selling phony telephone cards and cocaine. The statue of Takamori Saigo, a Meiji-era samurai, is surrounded by junkies seeking out teriyaki (heroin) or shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine). Indeed, when Choco Bon- Bon, star of such Japanese porn classics as Tales of a Hard Banana, needs a fix, he goes shopping in Ueno and then goes home to the Hotel Queen DeGaulle to get high...
...statement issued by the Coalition Against 187 billed the law as a "quick-fix,' 'feel-good' solution that blames undocumented people for the larger, complex problems of California's economy...
Weld repeated a familiar theme: if it ain't broke, don't fix...
...basically just release it," Kim said. "If people find a problem, they report it, and you fix it quickly...