Word: fixes
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...Sunnis, who benefited under Saddam's reign, regard the Shi' ites in government as pawns of Iran because politicians such as Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari spent the war in exile in Iraq's neighbor. Aga also had little faith in a fair vote and said the government would fix the election in its favor. "They just want to let the people feel they are practicing democracy," he said...
...classes in the next two weeks, while universities hit by Hurricane Katrina, including Tulane and Loyola, will stay closed until next semester. At Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, fallen trees have been cleared away but restoration teams are still working across campus to dry out waterlogged carpets and floors, fix Internet servers and phone systems, and repair buildings before students return to campus next Monday, according to the school’s website and an administrator there.Many Lamar students were scheduled to graduate in December, and thus the school had to create a revised fall term schedule that will allow...
...editors: Sometimes opinion writers make invalid assumptions, sometimes they needlessly offend people, and sometimes they misuse big words. Alex Slack has managed to commit all three sins in just one article (“The Easy Way to Fix Fly-By,” comment, Oct. 6). First, if he truly believes that all cotton garments are equally non-abrasive, I suggest that he try sleeping on denim sheets for a night. Second, although I myself am a frequent flyer-by, I haven’t seen any evidence of the innate lasagna-spooning inability he reports among short females...
They're working on it, Ms. Murphy. Mercedes is in the middle of a massive overhaul designed not only to fix the car problems and restore the luster but also to reinvent the company, no less. High-quality cars are a must, given the pounding Mercedes is taking from the likes of Lexus. The company is introducing a new S-Class (starting price for the flagship S500L version: around $115,00), which hits U.S. streets in January, joining two new R-Class models and a new M-Class SUV. At the same time, Mercedes has to revamp its manufacturing...
Mercedes realized it had major problems with its E-Class series soon after the launch in 2002 and moved aggressively to fix them. More than 200 SWAT teams of engineers ripped the car apart to identify and overcome the flaws, which included design and production snafus in complex electronics systems. The firm this year recalled 1.3 million cars, including C-Class and SL-Class as well as E-Class models built between 2002 and '05, took back the lemons, switched engines in some models and started providing two-year full-service warranties to disgruntled owners. In the process, the brand...