Word: fixes
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Well, obviously, in a perfect world we should fix all problems. We should fix climate change, and, preferably, tomorrow. We should also stop HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, and give clean water and sanitation to everyone, stop all civil wars. There are a lot of things in principle we should do, and I agree with all of those...
...course, we don't. We've had most of these problems for 50 years and we haven't fixed all of them. It seems reasonable to me to have a conversation: If we don't fix all problems tomorrow, can we at least talk about where we could do the most good first? Not ignoring the fact we should be doing all these things - but since we aren't, shouldn't we have a conversation about whether we can do lots of good or a little good...
...need to fix climate change...
...setting can be a freeing experience," he says. Mary Ellen Gwynn, a nurse in Upper Marlboro, Md., who often drove by one of the campaign billboards, agrees: "It reminded me that while telling mistakes to a friend can be cathartic, this seems to do something deeper to help me fix them...
...view. Says Schilling, who has worked in Africa for 20 years: "This project wouldn't work anywhere else. It would get picked apart, taken over, held up or crushed by corruption. Here you have an honest government with the political will to develop the country." Ruxin says Kagame is fixing an old problem. "How do countries develop? Enterprise. What made us think that institutions set up to fix Europe after World War II would do well at African poverty in the 21st century?" In Nyamata, Jacqueline Nyiramayonde, 42, describes her journey across the country in 1994, as she fled...