Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more on Clinton's plate by far, including the real measures by which he will ultimately be judged, like deficit reduction and health-care reform -- two goals that will require the greatest skill now that the latest private White House assessment has concluded that the money needed to fix the health-care mess could reach $175 billion, a sum more than twice the initial forecast. "The stimulus fight will look like a picnic compared with health care," says a Clinton aide. "But everything's possible if we include everyone in. On the other hand, nothing's possible if we continue...
That it is the secretaries that run everything is a truism acknowledged by anyone who has ever worked in an office. These days, most secretaries work as the single clerical support for the ten to fifteen workers of a specific section. It is the secretary who knows: how to fix the copier without calling the service person, who to call when the voice mail system goes on the blink, when every flex-time employee will actually be in the building, how to get accounting to reimburse funds even though the receipt is lost and where the copy of a bill...
Control over WordPerfect and Windows is delegated to small groups of programmers in Orem, Utah, and Redmond, Washington, respectively. They may or may not fix my problem, depending on everything from whim to budget constraints...
...source code is available, computer users can either fix bugs themselves, or hire other programmers. Corrections could then be incorporated into the program's next release. EMACS has already had eighteen major releases; Stallman has played an increasingly minor role in each. Software users often become software writers as they adapt free programs to their needs...
...health care crisis will not yield to a quick-fix solution. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Task Force on Health Care Reform face a Herculean ordeal in sorting through the issues and wrestling with countless conflicting interests. Unless you have a Master's in health care administration, a quick glance at the structure of the current system would probably leave you thoroughly confused...