Word: fixes
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...live in an age of instant gratification. The kids can't wait for their adrenaline fix, and the moguls can't wait to peddle it to them. What this gives us is violent entertainment for the young. What it deprives us of is mature entertainment for the mature...
...adopt a neutral stance and refrain from characterizing the conflict as solely the fault of terrorists. Steve Walach Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S. Condi's Clout Re Mike Allen's White House memo [Aug. 7]: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should be congratulated for wanting something more than a quick-fix, Band-Aid solution to the Middle East conflict. Diplomacy can work only if both sides abandon their unattainable goals, stop squandering their wealth and their children's future in pointless conflict, and start exhibiting the maturity needed to reach a compromise. Roy Weston Burnaby, Canada Rice's style of diplomacy...
...electronics like televisions and computers. Afterwards the refuge officials will burn off the wood and dead grasses. "Fire is our plow," LaBauve says. "I figure if they can rebuild Iraq, they can damn sure rebuild this refuge... There's no permanent scar here. There's nothing we can't fix...
...Many evacuees are shopping around for services that may be an immediate fix," says Jerry Montgomery of Houston's Katrina Aid Today. "We hope to steer them toward a process of long-term recovery...
...being slow to make improvements. Sometimes large safety issues can be solved with small changes like lighting and paint. Although it has not been ruled that poor signage or lighting is involved in the Comair crash, it has been an ongoing issue that safety experts have been trying to fix. An FAA test project to make runway markings more visible that was begun at T. F. Green Airport in Providence, R.I., last year was so successful at reducing incursions that the agency is taking the program nationwide. The project made a new brighter, bigger centerline and increased the width...