Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breathe. The things we do. The things we say. Our books. Our papers. Our theater. Our movies. Our radio and television. The way we behave. The interests we have. The values we fix...
...smart worker. Short on common sense. He was not mechanically inclined. He had one old pickup truck one summer and drove it until it quit on him. It was just a minor thing that was wrong with the truck, but he didn't know how to fix it. He just let it sit up there, until somebody bought it from him. It only cost the new owner $25 for the part. Ted had a hard time with everyday mechanical things." He tried a chain saw for woodcutting for a while, but that experiment with technology too ended in frustration...
...bright side, so to speak, of grave injury, discomfort and nearness to death is that you emerge with a clear fix on what the heart treasures. Mostly I didn't learn anything new but had the satisfaction of having my hunches confirmed. I emerged knowing that, as I had always suspected, the time I spend with my wife and boys is all that matters in the end. I emerged as a practicing Jew. (Admittedly, I had always been one.) In the "miscellaneous" department, I emerged with great admiration for Senator Dole, whose battlefield injuries were a little like mine...
Rivlin pointed to peace, a high level of employment, cleaner air and water, prompt federal relief for disasters and stable financial institutions. Given all these positive features of society, Rivlin said that the federal government has already fixed most of the problems that it has the power to fix...
...irresponsible blueprint for back-door socialism that I ever heard." Ford's challenger was Ronald Reagan--and all Reagan had done was point out that "some economists" had suggested the system might be saved if Social Security funds could be invested in the stock market, exactly the same "fix" being proposed today...