Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restoration project being debated this week is nearly as ambitious as the plumbing it is trying to fix. The driving forces behind it included former acting U.S. Attorney Dexter Lehtinen, who filed the first lawsuit, and Carol Browner, who headed Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation from 1991 through '92 and is now chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. To purify the runoff and restore some of the sheetlike flow of the original ecosystem, the state of Florida proposed setting aside around 35,000 acres of cropland to act as "filtering marshes." Irrigation water drained from the fields would...
...were able to point out some needs of the professors and departments [in Afro-American studies]," says Morgan. "It may not be a quick fix, but over time the concerns people may have with the department are looked at more quickly. Nothing moves quickly at the University...
Race relations do indeed present an insurmountable problem. Difficulties will surface as long as eggheads exist (which is basically forever). Removing uppity eggheads may fix matters in the short run, but there are many more out there to take their places...
...another local chair firm, says Camelot submitted a bid to Harvard but that it was turned down. "The impression I get from many schools is that if what they're doing works, they basically tend to stay with what they're doing," the manager says. "If it works, why fix...
...either woman were offered a lucrative job with an assured future, there's no doubt they'd refuse. After all, it is an option they could have pursued. To Baliga, the choice was clear. "Hey, there's something wrong," she says--and she wants to fix...