Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to reside in, and the cloths would part and Lo! a guest would be on his butt. With an injury at one end and a threat of suit at the other. Out went the chair. Along came me, and the chair, well, it came too. I figured to fix it and give...
...Calvin and Hobbes say. But I'm not worried because my government has everything under the Stars safe from Wars, has me sheltered under the umbrella of Technology, so I'm happy and warm in my rotomatic living room with the lazy-susan chair and the remote control environmental fix'it'all machine the IRS gave me inside my annual Christm Holiday rebate. So I'm content, if a little TENSE...
...affluent because we were living off borrowed money. We've got to clean up education, clean up the deficit, clean up the drugs, clean up the justice system, clean up industry. But right now it's like Lawrence Welk music: it's just wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And nobody will fix it before it breaks...
...international figure, Gorbachev is a world-class leader -- with no one else in his class. But unless he can fix the Soviet economy, he might well have trouble winning a free election. If his own people's standard of living continues to deteriorate, Gorbachev may face the disagreeable choice of reverting to genuinely dictatorial methods or retiring in failure and defeat. He will consider himself worthy of the praise and admiration he has inspired abroad only if and when he can prove that his political genius is up to the task of dealing with the economic problems he faces...
...past decade brought go-go growth but left huge debts, an S&L disaster and an array of postponed problems. The '90s will be a time to fix up, clean...