Word: fixes
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...weekly basis," said Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz last week. Surprisingly, given the animosity between Washington and Paris this year, that view is endorsed by a senior French diplomat. "They very pragmatically see that the situation has got to change," this diplomat says, "and they're trying to fix...
...were in working order. Instead, they're in a sorry state. And without basic utilities, factories aren't generating very much of anything--including badly needed jobs that would help win hearts and minds. The new Electricity Minister, Ayham al-Samaraie, estimates it will cost $18 billion just to fix the power grid...
...main problems is that we're not sure where we're going. The trail might as well be a legend, literally, as there are few reliable maps. For weeks, my kitchen floor was covered with army-issue charts as we tried to fix our route, with the help of historians and museums. In the end, we set out with only a vague idea of following the new highway and asking for directions along the way. The starting point was at Kilometer...
...asian crisis began - a sudden collapse of the currencies followed by recession and depression. From East Asia, it spread around the world until some feared the global economy itself might be approaching collapse. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) came charging to the rescue, but its programs did little to fix the problem. In fact, critics such as myself argued that IMF policies - particularly its insistence on premature "liberalization," or forcing recipient nations to open up their financial markets to often volatile short-term capital flows - had helped bring on the contagion, and that its "medicine" had made the patients...
...attack the Blaster worm, HASCS has provided a patch on their website that will fix infected machines by closing the vulnerability that the worm and its variants exploit to attack computers. But Blaster hits systems so quickly that students must install the patch immediately upon connecting to the network, Davis said...