Word: fixes
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...business. He made the cover of TIME in a 1959 story that described him as "a broad-shouldered, Bible-quoting broth of a man who burns brightly with the fire of missionary zeal." TIME noted that George Romney was a particular hit at women's clubs, where he would fix them with "his blue-grey eyes" and say, "Ladies, why do you drive such big cars? You don't need a monster to go to the drugstore for a package of hairpins. Think of the gas bills!" Turning those sales techniques to politics wasn't much of a stretch...
...factory floor, poking his nose into whatever the engineers were doing and making it clear when he did not like what he saw. If he wasn't satisfied with the answers he got, he'd go up to the executive suites and buttonhole Storms himself. "You guys want to fix this ship or not?" he'd challenge. "If so let me see you down on the factory floor with the rest...
...whether it is right or wrong, it is the perception. The fact is that without the poets, the condition it is easier to ignore. These people are voiceless without their poets. They have no voice except for rapper who either describes his condition or is talking about how to fix the condition...
...world will spend $41 trillion just to maintain infrastructure at current levels. Kleinfeld, 49, the CEO of Siemens, which makes everything from power plants and water systems to CT scanners and dishwashers, was determined to be the go-to guy to take care of the planet's fix-it list...
...Bush. In fact, his record so far is undoing much of what the younger Bush son started. In his first 100 days, Crist announced efforts to provide hurricane-insurance relief, ditch controversial touch-screen voting machines for ones with a paper trail, create a "children's cabinet" to fix Florida's dysfunctional child-welfare services, increase teacher pay by $300 million and reduce the state's overcrowded classrooms, convene a summit on global warming, promote stem-cell research and restore voting rights to felons who complete their sentences (which he did last month). At one point during Crist's State...