Word: fixes
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...protests by striking performing-arts workers - strikes that torpedoed music festivals in Aix-en-Provence and La Rochelle earlier in the week. Many more events in France's annual calendar of 650 arts fests are also expected to fold, depriving hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers of their summer culture fix. The demonstrations by performance workers - from actors and choreographers to roadies - are part of a rising tide of opposition to the reforms planned by the government of conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and President Jacques Chirac. In May and June, public-sector workers launched crippling nationwide strikes...
...power grid. But someone must. Baghdad was without power for six days last week, a consequence of looting and sabotage. Locals weren't impressed by the American response. "The Iraqi people saw the Americans defeat Saddam in three weeks," said one man. "Are they telling us they can't fix the power in three months?" Abizaid conceded to the Senate committee that "protection of the infrastructure is a problem." He thought there was no need yet to add more troops to the 145,000 in Iraq. But, he added, "we won't hesitate to ask for more if we need...
Rowling knows better than to fix what ain't broke, and Phoenix begins as the previous books have: the long, hot summer, the hopelessly unmagical, unforgivably bourgeois Dursleys, the longed-for magical summons, the hasty packing and finally--bliss--Platform 9 3/4 and on to another year at Hogwarts. But a lot has changed. Death, which was always part of the subtext of Rowling's story, burst out into the open in the previous novel, and the atmosphere in Phoenix has darkened accordingly. Voldemort is back, and Hogwarts' sage headmaster Aldus Dumbledore has organized some of the wizarding world...
After getting her exotic-scent fix, her face lights up as she evaluates the flowerlike molds developing nicely on the washed rind, noting that it reminds her of "Brancusi, like sculpture, not cheese," before moving on to observe that the crocks of St. Felicien, a creamy, nutty cheese, are ready for optimal eating. This is the chief goal of the newly opened Artisanal Cheese Center in New York City: to allow good cheeses to mature and therefore become better and tastier...
COMPANY: New management is still trying to fix accounting problems, but the stock is gaining...