Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know, when we look at ourselves in the mirror, we have a certain persona that we have concocted for ourselves. And we try to fix our hair, and dress, and have a certain facial expression that fits that model that we've cooked up for ourselves. Then, we need to use various ways of imposing that image of ourselves on other people. And it's a kind of marketing. It's a kind of personal marketing. We tend to be careful in the way we organize the stories we tell each other the stories that we tell each other...
...school by default. If your parents are destitute and you can't even afford (never mind get admitted to) the local church school, yon can always go to public school. With even less money and with few people above the poverty level attending them, no one will bother to fix the schools. Many of the wealthier people who run governments will have their children safely in a private school...
What Clinton wants to do is treat this system as broken. The way we have to fix that is essentially through managed competition. By lowering the rate of inflation in health care from 9 1/2% today to 5 1/2%, we can save enough to pay for the extension of coverage to the 36 million Americans who today don't have health insurance...
...consumer use, on retraining workers for domestic production or on social-welfare programs to ease the plight of the dislocated and unemployed. So what is to be done with 3 million workers in the military industry and nothing but a pinched, depleted domestic economy awaiting them? Just one more fix, is the addict's witless, blubbering solution -- one more useless, death-dealing, high...
...towards addressing the needs of clients across multiple functions. According to Bebbington, "the trend for the future is bringing three practice areas together for clients: strategy, operations (business process and organization design, etc.) and information technology. As the issues become more and more ambiguous, the problems we hear are `fix this process or fix that process' but `We are just not doing as well as we need to be doing to compete in this industry; we need some help.'" The consultants who participated in this discussion work in three different practice areas. When working together on a strategic change engagement...