Word: fixes
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Smith, who has become something of a service icon on campus, says he views community service as a quick fix, but advocacy as a step toward a more long-term solution to society’s problems...
...House intelligence chair Porter Goss, both of Florida, is meant to provide lawmakers with a better roadmap of the American intelligence community. And while investigators want to know what's well paved, they're more interested in identifying the potholes and dead ends - and figuring out how to fix them before intelligence lapses lead to another terrorist attack...
...deep need to fleece his fellow man that it plays like a David Mamet film moved to the village that time forgot. An ex-con returns home to help his dying mother. But mom is only pretending; she's a crook too, and wants sonny boy to fix up her house so she can settle the family debts. In a town where every transaction is negotiated with a handshake (you don't let go till you've agreed on a price) and the mayor is a penny-ante Vito Corleone, no one can be trusted, so no one is trusting...
Parents and students from the Haggerty waved signs reading “Hands Off Our School” and “If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix...
...would never try to touch people on the primal level Diana reached, but she recognized times had changed. No one expects an instinctively conservative woman in her seventies to overhaul radically her job of 50 years, which leaves those who want to reform or abolish it in an awkward fix. The Jubilee has prompted various suggestions for change: among them, that she should retire and that a system for picking an elected president be devised. But the republicans have no real leverage. For all its vicissitudes, the monarchy remains shockingly popular-70% prefer it over a republic, a percentage that...