Word: fixes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Acta’s fault, and his firing is an unfortunate part of how the game is played. If they are serious about competing, the Nationals need to focus on making changes, on the field and in the mindset of their front office, that will fix what’s actually broken...
...Michael, a little bit too worried and, let’s face it, pretty awkward. I would prefer for things to run on schedule and for them to go smoothly and without real conflict. And when they don’t, I experience the perpetual urge to want to fix them. So, how to move from this state of preoccupation to idyllic summer (and if we want to be ambitious, lifelong) happiness...
...alternative-medicine doctors and orthopedic surgeons are miles apart on what eating plants can actually fix. Scurvy, night-blindness, constipation and, of course, hunger are the problems they tell us in medical school that plants can cure. Psychosomatic factors are said to underlie all the other "benefits." But I looked and found two well-done scientific papers studying the effects of turmeric on a group of patients who I thought should be far less likely to be affected by psychosomatic factors. Because they were rats. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...half after his victory over longtime conservative Prime Minister John Howard, Rudd dutifully rattles through what his Labor Party will do for this hurting community. But he also regales the audience with tales from the G-20 meeting earlier this year in London, where world leaders debated how to fix the global economy. U.S. President Barack Obama, the Prime Minister confides, borrowed an analogy of Rudd's in his speech, while President Hu Jintao of China chatted with him in Mandarin. As Rudd reveals his foreign exploits, the crowd shifts; attentions wander. The Aboriginal elder who kicked off the event...
...long as I’ve been alive, he tried to fix my grandmother. Wihyun Yi: a name best sighed—and a woman who did just that for the 20 years I knew her. She died this past April, and it was the first time I saw brokenness in my carpenter grandfather. The morning before the day she was due to pass, I awoke to the sound of grief: the slow shuffling of feet across the splotched carpet of a home for two, the heaving of cushions as a body sinks into them, and the breaking of noise...