Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill O. Selig '96 agreed, saying he appreciated the quick fix...
...throughout the campaign, candidate Clinton was told that his numbers didn't add up. He stuck to his plan for political reasons and now he blames his fix on bad estimates...
...fringes of a megacorporate global village where all transactions are carried out in New Yen. There he encounters Molly, a sharp-edged beauty with reflective lenses grafted to her eye sockets and retractable razor blades implanted in her fingers. They are hired by a mysterious employer who offers to fix Case's damaged nerves so he can once again enter cyberspace -- a term Gibson invented. Soon Case discovers that he is actually working for an AI (artificial intelligence) named Wintermute, who is trying to get around the restrictions placed on AIs by the TURING POLICE to keep the computers under...
...missiles as in about 60 unsafe power plants. Officials of the Group of Seven major industrial countries -- all cold war enemies of the ex-communists -- have agreed in principle to set up a fund that would lend money to nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to fix up their nuclear dinosaurs. The U.S. and Japan overcame their skepticism about multilateral rather than bilateral funding, and will make small initial contributions. Though the fund is eventually supposed to total $700 million, it will start with $75 million, all but $14 million put up by Germany and France...
Brundtland got into her fix because she needed the political support of fishermen in northern communities. Faced with declining catches, the fishermen look hungrily at Minke whales. To keep this group in her fragile coalition, Brundtland has blithely forgotten many of her strongly held convictions...