Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study clearly demonstrates that students have a part in increasing their access to the faculty. But instead of patting themselves on the back as Light would seem to suggest, faculty members should recognize their own potential role in eliminating this problem. First, the Faculty should fix the Core. Huge, impersonal and unavoidable Core classes are still the best preventive for student-faculty contact. Broaden the Core, allow substitutions or eliminate it. Just do something...
...process unnecessarily. To avoid setting fire-sale prices in shaky markets, the Government is bound to sell assets at no less than 95% of their appraised value. That restriction has scotched many deals, since buyers can often find better prices elsewhere. Another drawback is the agency's refusal to fix up old properties or provide loans for potential buyers. With enough troubles of their own, many banks and thrifts refuse to grant mortgages on such tainted properties. "If the RTC won't pay for a new roof and fresh coat of paint, and no one will lend...
...adding more kids," says the National Head Start Association's Don Bolce, "we could end up like the S&Ls. By functioning on the cheap, we will eventually so severely underfund Head Start's ability to deliver quality care that we will be forced to spend even more to fix the problems shortsightedly created...
Theoretically, the money my dorm neighbors pay to the fund will someday pay to spruce up the paint in Hollis, fix a door hinge in Grays, or repair the hole in the ceiling of Matthews Hall...
...Beijing may not find that easy to fix. Leaders of the U.S. Congress, where sentiment is strong for imposing new sanctions, were unmoved by China's modest gesture, and are likely to demand more concessions before restoring full ties. Michigan's William Broomfield, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, summed up the reaction when he called Beijing's announcement "more blue smoke and mirrors ((that)) would not fool anybody in Congress into believing that the Chinese leadership was moderating its oppressive rule." He might as well have said...