Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar fix, Long's modern-day counterparts would convene focus groups to test various excuses. (The likely winner: "When I made that campaign promise, I had a serious substance-abuse problem, but now I'm leading my class at a nationally ranked recovery clinic.") Then a top speechwriter would embellish the confession, and a media consultant would orchestrate the requisite appearance on Geraldo. But all this high-priced talent could not alter reality -- a broken campaign promise is still a breach of trust. Lies are still lies. The trick is knowing how to recognize them...
...Ticknor Lounge--When it ain't broke, don't fix it. They wouldn't have to change the name or the purpose. Just beef up the magazine and newspaper subscriptions, put some student art up on the walls for display, throw in a couple of poetry readings every now and then and you have a perfect student center reading room...
Luckily, it hasn't worked. Americans are tired of refighting the Vietnam War, which Bush promised we had "kicked" at the end of the Gulf War. Yet while we may be able to fix our mistakes at home, history may one day ask us why we spend so much time worrying about our own house when we still have no compass to guide our foreign policy. Our children may ask why, for example, we never asked Bush about the genocide of the Kurds in Iraq...
...repair roads and put a lot of people to work without any increase in wage costs because there are so many unemployed construction workers," said Donald Ratajczak, director of the economic forecasting center at Georgia State University. Fosler, however, said the plan would "dress the economy up rather than fix...
...fix the broken parts of the economy has not only become a central issue of the presidential campaign but is also likely to stand as Topic A for much of the 1990s. Quick fixes will not work, a point that many Americans seem to be accepting. In fact, that is the light at the end of the tunnel. "A lot of good things are going on underneath the surface that will actually work very well for us two and three years out," said Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisors...