Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Starr arrived at Harvard, he was full of idealistic dreams of improving the world, he says. "I wanted to major in political science so that I could fix all the problems of the world," he says. But he found government courses difficult and uninteresting...
Like many other states striving for fairness in funding rich and poor school districts, Texas has found no quick fix. After the state supreme court last year affirmed a 1987 district court ruling that the existing system was unconstitutional, Governor Bill Clements and state lawmakers wrestled with the issue through four rancorous special sessions. They finally adopted a formula for bolstering less affluent districts with additional state funds. Last week District Court Judge F. Scott McCown pitched out that plan. Ruling in a suit by the poor school districts that filed the original action, McCown concluded, "The rich districts...
...Jacques Delors, the Community's chief executive, is challenging Germany to prove that it is still determined to go forward. "Are the Germans truly interested in economic and monetary union?" he asked last week. "We need clear, unambiguous political commitments." The time has come, he said, to "fix the dates...
...Union address, he mentioned families and "kids" more than 30 times -- the electronic equivalent of kissing babies on the village green. "To the children out there tonight," he declared as he built to his finale, "with you rests our hope, all that America will mean in the years ahead. Fix your vision on a new century -- your century, on dreams you cannot see, on the destiny that is yours and yours alone...
Walter Haas had plenty to spend; he is an heir to the Levi Strauss jeans fortune. He also had a resilient young pitching staff and a local rabbit named Rickey Henderson. To nurture the team to respectability, though, he needed a quick fix and a long view. He already had the first in Billy Martin, a brilliant, volatile field manager. Before he wore out both his welcome and the arms of his starting pitchers (all were shortly out of the majors), Martin , hustled the A's to the play-offs in 1981 and, with his run-and-gun style...