Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the influence of supply-side guru Jude Wanniski, Forbes argues on the stump that, as was the case between World War II and the late 1960s, "we must tie the value of the dollar to a fixed measure, such as gold, so that a dollar today will be worth a dollar tomorrow." He also argues that using the gold standard to fix the dollar's value vis-a-vis other currencies would boost world trade...
What is not clear is what Apple hopes to gain from the negotiations. But that's nothing new, because Apple's aims have not been clear for years. That is precisely the problem that has landed the company in a fix where it is apparently negotiating to sell itself for a bargain-basement price...
...President balance the budget [NATION, Jan. 15], not seven years or 70 years from now but today? The government is writing bad checks our children will have to pay. I think people just don't know; I can't believe they don't care. We need to fix this, end the confiscatory taxes and take our country back! BRIAN K. KEGERREIS Fort Collins, Colorado...
...question being asked by Berenson's family and friends in the U.S. is how this "warm and friendly"--Radosh's words--middle-class American woman with every prospect of success in life landed in such a fix. Born to two college instructors--her father Mark teaches statistics--and raised in Manhattan, Lori was a good student at La Guardia High School of Music and Art. A whiz also at science and math, she enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...WELFARE FIX NIXED...