Word: fixes
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...mail is a mess A fix is in the works, but so far you can't search messages...
...finagling involving securitized mortgages and credit default swaps somehow resulted in frail old grandmothers thrown out of their Orlando condos; money managers walking into their own clever booby traps ended up in the red and out of work. The stimulus package, our best option, seemed more of a quick-fix to placate the masses—like those one-size-fits-all T-shirts doled out to the summer camp brat pack—than a sensitive economic instrument. But that only speaks to the confusion at the capitol and to our continued willingness to accept with hope whatever?...
...Despite the momentous budget allocated to repairs, Alan's relatives have had to spend their own funds to fix their homes. Many other locals spent the winter in roofless apartments, or even camped in their courtyards. "The region has always been an economic black hole," said Malashenko. "Its future has nothing to do with Kokoity, but with Russia and its relationship with the other Caucasian territories." (Read: "Russia and Ukraine Battle Over Their Shared History...
...become a commonplace that growth is powered by ideas and innovation - especially "disruptive" innovation, Big Ideas that change the whole game (for instance, the Internet). Yet most ideas start out "fuzzy, weak and partially baked," says Gerald Sindell, and then they fizzle out altogether. Sindell would like to fix that. A successful book-publishing executive and former award-winning Hollywood film director, he founded a consulting firm called Thought Leaders International that purports to teach clients like Yahoo! and Accenture how to turn sketchy concepts - the proverbial scribble on the back of an envelope - into blockbuster products and services...
Simon Hix, a professor at the London School of Economics and author of What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It, observes that the elections tend to serve as referenda on national political issues rather than addressing European ones. "It's not a genuine contest for power at the European level," he says. (See pictures of London...