Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beauty, while maybe shallow, would not be deadly if a woman's starting assumption were "My body is a great thing and I want to take care of it." Instead, the view presupposed and induced by our culture is "My body is flawed and subnormal, and I'd better fix it before anyone finds...
This is why so many of the signs of "ugliness" that make-up, diets and surgery "fix" are signs of maturity: wrinkles, for example, or a heavier and more matronly figures (and since when did "matronly" become an insult...
...thus adding an instant 1% to the value of every home in America and, at the same time, making real estate sales -- which produce nothing -- a little less attractive relative to teaching, which is where we really want to attract our best people. There's already tacit "price-fixing" among real estate agents -- the standard 6% commission -- so this would just fix the price a little lower. With home prices having consistently outstripped inflation for decades, until recently, real estate commissions were outstripping inflation too. Meanwhile, pay for most other lines of work, like teaching, barely kept pace...
...economist argued that a quick-fix will not solve structural problems in the Russian economy. He added that the main cause of the republics' current economic troubles is the lack of a strong, central government to oversee change...
...shattered land. Says National Assembly Vice President Ruben Zamora, who is close to the insurgents: "Peace generates huge expectations among the people that cannot possibly be met. The war was always the excuse for everything: no water, no electricity, no jobs. But the fact is, peace won't fix these problems...