Word: fixes
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...supposed to be if the computer broke I was supposed to fix it, and in all the three years that I worked there it broke only once and I couldn’t fix it,” he joked as we chatted on the second floor of Cafe Algiers. “So, I wasn’t very helpful to the army...
...going to be on the U.S. Olympic team, and whatever bulls___ we have to deal with to get us there, we're going to do it...I love you, and I believe in you...You're my girl." Yet Racine's coaches were looking for a fix. "None of the coaches was happy with the performance Jean was getting," says bobsled federation head Matt Roy. "Something had to be done...
...After a year in office, one thing is clear about Bush's political operatives: when they make a mistake, they fix it fast. When their conservative instincts lead them down a path that much of the country isn't keen on, they are awfully good at changing the subject while holding to their original course. Which is why Bush, early last week, said his mother-in-law was one of the little people who got screwed by the corporate giant. On a trip to a West Virginia machinery shop Tuesday, Bush told workers that Jenna Welch, 82, had lost almost...
...quality that has marked her career--even in something like 2000's Requiem for a Dream, in which she played a junkie allowing herself to be sexually degraded for a fix. Since Connelly, now 31, has been in movies since she was 11 and has taken time out to study at Stanford and Yale, she is well prepared for a wide range of roles. "Since I grew up in it," she says, "I'm comfortable with all sides of the business." That perhaps accounts for the untroubled ease with which she inhabits a range that has included a political activist...
Among the best-selling prescription drugs in the U.S. today are the statins--powerful medications that can lower cholesterol levels by as much as 30 points. A fix that quick comes at a price, however, as Baycol users learned this fall. The popular statin was pulled off the market after health officials discovered that a disturbing number of users were suffering from muscle disorders. Other statins, including atorvastatin, lovastatin and pravastatin, remain safe, according...