Word: fixes
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...deep silence that makes African leaders and societies want to deny the problem, the corruption and incompetence that render them helpless is something the West cannot fix. But the fact that they are poor is not. The wealthy world must help with its zeal and its cash if southern Africa is ever to be freed of the AIDS plague...
...They've now got some younger players filling the roles. But the style of play hasn't changed," Sullivan said. It isn't broke yet, so why fix...
...Wechsler calls this a "Madison Avenue approach" to student drinking, arguing that it advertises the problem rather than helping to fix...
...time, well short of the corps' 75% requirement. An Osprey crash last April in Arizona, killing 19 Marines, highlights the plane's maintenance woes. The Osprey had spent only 135 hours in the air during the three months the Marines owned it. Yet it needed 600 repairs--one fix for every 15 minutes of flying time. The Osprey is far less ready for action than the Vietnam-era CH-46 chopper it is supposed to replace...
Stanford, who had joined the transition team, was among advisers and friends cautioning Derwin against notifying jail employees that he planned to fire them, fearful they would destroy files or sabotage databases. "There's nothing they can do we can't fix," Derwin told him. His wife says he anguished over the firings, coming to her one night in early December to ask whether she thought people would rather know right away or wait until after the holidays to discover they were getting axed. "Derwin was not the bad guy. He was not firing people just to fire people," Phyllis...