Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows about safety over the long run. Some researchers caution that taken in such large amounts, the supplement is no longer a vitamin but a drug and should be thoroughly tested. In any case, vitamin supplements cannot substitute for good health habits. Unfortunately for those who want a quick fix, getting plenty of exercise, cutting down on dietary fat and quitting smoking remain far better prescriptions for preventing heart disease than anything one can obtain from a vitamin bottle...
...dining-room table. She would have coffee, a cigarette, whatever. They would listen to the radio, my dad would do whatever he had to do, and at around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the radio would be turned off, the TV would come on. Dad would fix the dinner at around 6, then he would have to feed her. And then they would watch TV until about 10 o'clock, and then he would put on her salve, for her skin, head to toe, front to back, and this took until about 11:30. Then...
...Liem's spending his days walking the house halls, trying to find out the names of the tutors who dared to tell the truth. He's made no effort to fix the situation, rein in Li, or reform the hiring process. If there's no accounting for these problems or changes in policy by the end of the school year, President Rudenstine should step in, fire Li, and replace Liem with someone who understands the principle of free speech by next fall...
...into something as intimate as a diary. Stardust pointed the way to some dire aesthetic directions: if only its duet with Julio Iglesias could be expunged from the collective pop consciousness without doing damage to Nelson's beleaguered bank account. But with a little luck, Across the Borderline will fix him for good right where he belongs, among the best of American music. If still really is still moving to him, then he can settle in that neighborhood. Of all the places he's lived, it's the only one where he really belongs...
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON KNEW life had changed forever when her daughter Chelsea got sick one night in February and asked her mother to fix one of her favorite dishes. No sooner did the First Lady pad down the hall to the kitchen on the second floor of the family quarters, open the refrigerator and begin cracking eggs than a steward appeared magically at her elbow. He wanted to help by whipping up an omelet. At the risk of hurting his feelings, the most influential woman in America explained that the eggs had to be scrambled and that...