Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McBride says she tries to teach the kids how to fix a bike themselves so in the future they can help themselves and friends. She also tells the children how she salvages bike parts to teach them how to be thrifty...
...when the purists have finished gazing longingly at the historic red brick building, they can fix their eyes on the grass (home grown, one Oriole official reminded me, in Salisbury on Maryland's Eastern Shore) in right-center field, where the parents of legendary Yankees' slugger Babe Ruth once reportedly ran a tavern...
...data -- as well as the glory -- while Navy personnel were stuck with a limited role because they could receive only a tiny fraction of the vital information. As part of a plan for a sweeping reorganization of U.S. intelligence, CIA Director Bob Gates now says he will fix the mess so that all services have ready access to such intelligence data in the future...
Basically we like the free market only as long as the trend is up. As soon as the inevitable downturn occurs, we complain bitterly and expect the government to fix things. We want to have it both ways -- the energy and dynamism of capitalism, plus stability and security. It is simply impossible to square the circle completely. But we seem to be working out a new geometry. We are rethinking the interaction between the government, private enterprise, the local community and the individual...
...monstrous act. But these kids are not monsters. They are growing against all odds in poisonous soil. I cannot judge them. And I cannot fix it for them, this horrible world they live in. All I can do is describe it. And try to stop the denial...