Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Here is the classic difference between the two groups: If you have a problem, the Independents want to fix that particular problem today, while the CCA wants to change the underlying cause of the problem," said Koocher...
...this University moves towards a more diverse faculty, it is easy to get frustrated with the rate of change. However, we see no evidence that Harvard is not acting in good faith. Special preferences are an attractive quick fix but are not worth their larger cost. After all, the mission of this University is to provide its students the full breadth of the intellectual experience with access to the worldis greatest scholars. Diversity of thought is far more important than some artificial diversity of gender. --Noah D. Oppenheim '00, Thomas B. Cotton '98, Alex M. Carter...
Major General Alfonso Lenhardt, the Army's top recruiter, denies the problem is widespread but nonetheless promises to fix it. If recruiters "commit misdeeds," he says, "they're going to pay the price. We're going to make sure that everyone gets the word...
...favor, with Bowles suggesting that President Clinton's support would neutralize criticism from liberal Democrats, unions and senior citizens, for whom a CPI change would mean smaller annual increases in their Social Security checks. But Gingrich wasn't buying. He and other House G.O.P. leaders consider a CPI fix "political suicide," as one put it. But the White House wants to make a deal with Gingrich, who they think may prove a more durable budget ally than House Democratic leaders. Meeting with Democratic brethren last week, the President shared none of the details of the emerging agreement, but promised...
...grants today in favor of other incentives might prove to be a case of bad timing. The stock market is a self-correcting mechanism, even though it hasn't seemed that way in the 1990s. The market may finally be entering a long overdue cooling period, which would naturally fix some glaring excesses in CEO pay--so long, that is, as companies resist the inevitable CEO pleadings to revise their pay deals in a flat or falling market...