Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David feels guilty for his success because he thinks it depends on luck. He lives in constant fear that his luck will run out. Throughout the play, Hopkins subtly portrays David's insecurity. For example, when Gus Eberson (Theodore Caplow) mysteriously appears and helps David fix his car, he looks beaten. We see his humility when he says, "Will you show me what...
...influence, and that suggests Adham was simply following B.C.C.I.'s universal recipe for success: buy favor as close to the center of power as possible. An official familiar with both men suggested that Adham was merely trying to execute what Arabs call wasta, a sort of well-placed personnel fix, similar to Muammar Gaddafi's hiring of Billy Carter during the 1970s as a foreign trade representative...
...some councillors said that Walsh's plan would effectively fix councillors' salaries. Public referenda on salary increases is already an option for citizens under Massachusetts law. The proposal would have made a referendum legally mandatory
...should not believe that agitation for social reform stopped because people sold out. It stopped because the empowered middle classes burned out on the hope for transformation in the public sphere, and directed their energies back to problems they could see and fix one-on-one. It stopped because the issues got harder. But now--in social welfare, in education, in race relations, in environmentalism--individual solutions are inadequate and illusory...
Older friends, like Mississippi Democrat Sonny Montgomery, who met Bush on the Hill after being elected to Congress in 1966, had a better fix. "When he locks his mind on something," says Montgomery, "he is going...