Word: fixes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...boom is fueled in large part by new, less costly "quick fix" techniques that don't involve major surgery: botox injections that temporarily eradicate facial lines, derma-fills that smooth out wrinkles and scars and build up lips and cheeks, and laser beams that zap away lines. Liposuction, the process of vacuuming fat from the body, is gaining in popularity thanks to advances in keyhole surgery and other less intrusive techniques...
...confidence that comes from an overhang of trash loans from the early '90s and from a decade of failed policy. Smart Japanese consumers are nervously waiting for those loans to blow up. So encouraging consumers to start spending is like encouraging a man strapped to a time bomb to fix his hair. They have other things on their mind. That has paralyzed reform...
Enter Takenaka, moving fast. In Japan the phrase that dare not speak its name right now is shock therapy, but that's exactly the kind of quick economic fix he has in mind. "How fast can we clean it up?" he asks me as we sit over tea. Five years, I guess. "We think two to three years, but we need to accelerate." The reason for the haste is simple: the reforms are likely to cause unemployment. That puts the reform package into a race with electoral confidence. If voters get fed up before the reforms have time to finish...
Maybe in a previous life George W. Bush traveled the land selling snake oil. What ails ya? Nothin' his bottled cure-all wouldn't fix. Naturally, he would be long gone when the mob returned with tar and feathers. In this life some things have changed. Snake oil is out; tax cuts are in. High energy prices got ya down? A tax cut will make the spike affordable. Might lose your job in the slowdown? A tax cut will turn this economy around and save your paycheck. That's the Bush pitch: tax cuts as a nostrum for everything...