Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more for our record keeping than anything else. Before a student switches service, we want to make sure that there is something wrong that we can fix," McDaniel said...
...piling up faster than they can be cleared, with the Immigration and Naturalization Service falling farther behind every year. At her confirmation hearings at the end of September, Doris Meissner, Clinton's nominee as commissioner of the INS, conceded, "The asylum system is broken, and we need to fix...
...capitalize on their strong points. "Service is an unappreciated American specialty," says Eric Lesin, president of AAC Systems, based in Pasadena, California, a company that sells computerized cost-control systems for large telephone networks. "Sony can snap out a Walkman, but they can't send you a technician to fix it." The priority given by foreign buyers to quality and service allows American exporters to de-emphasize price cutting, which is one reason export-related jobs in the U.S. pay on average 17% more than jobs that produce goods sold only domestically...
...This thing" is the most difficult and daring space assignment since the Apollo moon landings. Though NASA is trying to downplay it as a "scheduled maintenance flight," the goal is anything but routine: the crew is supposed to fix the faulty Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.6 billion disappointment that has kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago. The repair work will require that alternating pairs of astronauts go on five space walks of six hours each, which would break the NASA record of four such excursions on a mission. Since the task will be something like...
...hoping they fix it soon," said Elizabeth Harman...