Word: fixes
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...thing to recognize a problem, another to fix it--and the photo ops Hughes prescribes can't mend Bush's image if his policies don't find a middle ground. Hughes insists his problem is one of perception, not substance. She is so loyal that during the campaign she frustrated reporters who felt her single-minded determination to stay on message often kept her from saying anything useful or interesting. She has overseen a White House communications shop--including press secretary Ari Fleischer's office--that since January has operated largely on the principle that the less information given...
...desperate time signals from orchestra conductor Bill Conti could slow her down. "I was having an existential moment," she explains, months later. "I forgot people and I feel bad. But I don't wish I had written anything down. You can't go back in time, you can't fix it, you can't change it. I did write Bill Conti a little note thanking him for his patience. But I don't believe in 'If only...
...reflection of the current British identity. We complain about the poor state of our hospitals, education and public transport, yet when the opportunity comes to take action, only 58% of the electorate bothers to vote, the lowest turnout in more than 80 years. Too many people want a quick fix to difficult problems without having to do the work to help solve them. Some people have forgotten that it was 20 years of short-term solutions that resulted in our current depressive state. As a nation, we need to learn the art of being patient, first with one another...
...passing the $1.35 trillion tax cut [NATION, June 11], we have squandered a golden opportunity to fix our crumbling infrastructure and stimulate the U.S. economy. The next time you are stuck in traffic on an interstate highway, just say, "$1.35 trillion." Because some of those revenues would have upgraded many interstate freeways, improved air and rail travel and so on. RAYMOND FREEMAN Thousand Oaks, Calif...
...they get him out of this fix? Fletcher got some Republicans to bolt from the Norwood bill to sign on to his. But even with Hastert and the GOP leadership behind him, he doesn't yet have a majority. Many moderate Republicans are holding off and only a few Democrats have defected to his measure. "A lot of Democratic members would like to vote for this bill but they're getting unprecedented pressure from their leadership to vote against it," Fletcher tells TIME. Fletcher isn't helped by the fact that the Senate finally passed the Kennedy-McCain-Edwards bill...