Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talked about it a lot," senior forward Joe Craigen said. "If I had the answer, we wouldn't be scoring one goal a game. It's a big problem and we've got to fix it. It's just a matter of bearing down, shooting the puck, crashing the net and taking advantage of our opportunities when we have them...
...parents in control, and they will be casually hooking up V chips to CD-ROMs and the Internet so that their children can play nonviolent, smut-free, four-dimensional Parcheesi with friends in Bangalore while listening to symphonic background music. Until then, though, any attempt at a techno-fix like the V chip will put the inmates in charge of the asylum...
...court-martial Technical Sergeants Thomas Mueller and William Campbell, both mechanics, for the death of pilot Major Donald Lowry Jr. [NATION, Dec. 2]. It is truly incredible that the Air Force pursued these two men, when in essence it was the Air Force itself that took no steps to fix the flight-control rods so they could not be misconnected and to warn mechanics of the problem. This was a double tragedy; the suicide of Mueller and the death of Lowry could easily have been prevented by the Air Force. RICHARD L. MULLINS JR. Auburn, Alabama...
...which could be heartening to three disgraced executives of the Archer Daniels Midland Co. who were charged with price fixing last week. Under indictment are Michael Andreas, who is the son of chairman Dwayne Andreas and on leave as executive vice president of ADM; Terrance Wilson, who ran the company's corn-processing division; and, surprisingly, whistle blower Mark Whitacre. Although Whitacre was the mole at meetings in which price fixing was allegedly discussed, his work did not shield him from charges. It did no doubt figure in ADM's admission of guilt and payment of a $100 million penalty...
Hill said there needs to be "a shift in focus before we can fix the problem...