Word: fixes
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...French village in the early '90s. She's appalled that it's so hard to shop, but eventually the couple conclude that the French, by having concerns other than making a buck, have left a lot of good stuff alone - if it ain't broke, they don't fix it. Unlike Americans. City of the Future (1966-67) shows impossibly curvy, port-holed buildings, mocking a postwar attitude that led the country to destroy and deface too much of the past for Crumb's taste: "There is a big wonderful future tomorrow full of monumental achievements!...Everyone will be tuned...
...Archbishop Pius Ncube, who said before the vote that Zimbabwe needed a "non-violent, popular mass uprising." Any such resistance will likely spur violent retribution from the government and its affiliates. "I went to my rural home to vote and could see how people had been intimidated," says Harare fix-it man Charles Magwenzi, 45. "The people had been warned that if there was an MDC victory, they would be beaten...
...Reverse Gear DaimlerChrysler announced a worldwide recall of 1.3 million Mercedes-Benz vehicles sold between 2001 and 2004. Customer complaints prompted the decision to fix brakes, alternators and batteries...
...Larry Summers deserves credit for trying to fix the situation, both by encouraging faculty to interact with students, and by pledging to hire more faculty to reduce the professor-student ratio,” he wrote...
...both the World Bank and the Laos government believe that the Nam Theun 2 dam can help fix it. The project is the cornerstone of the government's giddy goal of becoming the "battery of Southeast Asia," and has been on the drawing board for almost 20 years. The dam will flood an area the size of Singapore, bleed one river almost dry and swell another, force the relocation of 6,200 people, and affect as many as another 100,000 living in and around the country's central Nakai Plateau. A joint project between the Laos government...