Word: fixes
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...most painful conversation I keep overhearing - other than "I'm getting into the elevator now. You're breaking up" - is the one in which people complain about gas prices. It has become such an incessant whine that the Senate set up an entire subcommittee on how to fix the problem, taking away valuable time Senators should have spent trying to woo James Jeffords with hookers...
...Wednesday morning, half a dozen G.O.P. colleagues sat Jeffords down in a room off the Senate floor for a last stab at changing his mind. "Jim, do you really believe you can further your dreams and aspirations by doing this?" Senator Chuck Hagel asked plaintively. "We can fix this. Give us a chance." Jeffords agreed only to meet later that day. When they reconvened at 4:15, the Senators had a sweet offer for him. The White House promised more money for education, Lott would give him a seat at the Senate leadership table as the moderates' representative, and Jeffords...
Ford's decision to increase the stability of the Explorer by lowering the tire pressure soon had unintended consequences. The mushier tires held the road better but worsened fuel economy. When Ford asked Firestone to fix the problem, Firestone reduced the weight of the tire about...
...most painful conversation I keep overhearing--other than "I'm getting into the elevator now. You're breaking up"--is the one in which people complain about gas prices. It has become such an incessant whine that the Senate set up an entire subcommittee on how to fix the problem, taking away valuable time Senators should have spent trying to woo James Jeffords with hookers...
...meant to replace your trusty iMac: it is an industrial tool. Xybernaut sells these machines - a few hundred, thus far - to companies that have a large, widely dispersed maintenance staff. Bell Canada's workers, for instance, climb up poles and down manholes to fix phone lines and maintain highly sophisticated equipment. Rather than carry a bagful of printed manuals, workers strap on MA-IVs, which have all the manuals on their hard-disk drives. If a worker encounters a tricky problem with a particular router, say, he can switch on his video camera and beam live images to a supervisor...