Word: fixes
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...night to two in the morning is party/study/deep conversation time. Phoning anyone before noon is considered rude because it may interrupt prime bedtime hours. We complain that 10 a.m. classes are too early. And many would gladly give up breakfast entirely in exchange for a late night snack fix. What’s ridiculous is that deep down we all know that this way of living is crazy. We continue to happily munch Tommy’s Pizza’s constipation pies or the Hong Kong Chinese’s fried crab bowel dragoons as if the next day?...
...FINED. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor; $300 million, in connection with charges of price-fixing; by the U.S. District court; in San Francisco. Samsung was charged with colluding with industry rivals from 1999 to 2002 to fix the prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, used in everything from cell phones to laptops, forcing major computer manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple to raise prices to compensate. The fine is the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history...
...Make no mistake about it: Hurricane Katrina didn't destroy New Orleans; the breaches in the levees did. Maybe it's time the U.S. government spent its money on what is broken in our country rather than trying to fix things in other nations. Nancy H. Babendir Skokie, Illinois...
...mails to the Kirkland open e-mail list complaining about leaks. UOS “said this is a problem which generally happens university wide after an extended period of rain,” Bleszynski wrote. “They said there is nothing that can be done to fix the problem at this point.” She wrote that UOS promised to send people with mops and buckets to provide temporary relief, but that more serious building repair problems would be fixed after the rain subsided. Bleszynski, who has lived in Kirkland for more than three years, wrote...
...succeeded in converting 73% of its cookies and crackers, including Triscuits. But so far, the Oreo project has put on store shelves only low-fat, sugar-free and "golden" varieties of the cookie, which taste nothing like the original, which is still sold. Kraft says it has found a fix, but the trans-fat-free original Oreo won't debut until the end of the year...