Word: fixes
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Folks in Tazewell County know they better keep their eyes open, their toolsheds locked and their barn doors shut. Junkies, addicted to prescription pills and looking for anything to steal to pay for their next fix, have turned this 520-sq.-mi. patch of Appalachian Virginia--a bucolic tangle of wooded mountains, steep hills and rolling pastures dotted with sagging barns and country churches--into a society plagued by pilferers. They swipe guns from unlocked cabinets and push motorcycles out of garages in the dead of night. They swap or sell stolen watches, lawn mowers and sneakers for potent painkillers...
...markets; those of some countries, like Indonesia's, have never recovered. The introduction of VCDs and DVDs, legitimate and not, ate into box office. Fewer Asians were willing to shell out $7 to watch a Hong Kong film with sub-Hollywood production values when they could cheaply get their fix at home. With box office disappearing, the only sure money in moviemaking came from video rights, which meant an increasing number of films were made with a VCD expressly in mind?not a formula for cinematic greatness. "Videos are like drugs to us," says Peter Chan, a director and head...
...European Parliament that the Services Directive in its current form "has not a snowball's chance in hell" of being approved by governments and the Parliament. E.U. heads of government are expected to discuss the issue at this week's summit in Brussels, but prospects for a quick fix are slight...
Students seeking a late-night fix while studying may no longer have to venture outside of Lamont Library for food...
...President gets so folksy, he occasionally admits some truths his spinners have spent months trying to paper over. When one widow says she has invested in bonds as the safest investment, he cracks: "Well, not so safe, unless we fix the deficit." The audience laughs and Bush quickly rushes to cover his slip. "We're fixing the deficit," he promises...