Word: fixes
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...leave Brazil on Sunday, the last night of the concert. There is something wrong with the plane - a part has gone wrong, so they're going to try to fix the part (which could take three hours) or order the part (which could take two days). I decide that, in airline speak, the same argot which calls a muffin a breakfast and a strip of rotten chicken an entree, three hours means nine hours and "could take two days" means the plane is going down in a fiery ball of flame. I rebook my trip through Miami and figure...
When one branch of that structure wasn't working as it should have been, Summers acted aggressively to fix...
...play tunes that sound similar, regardless of artist or genre. It's a laborious process, but the potential rewards are tremendous. Give it an hour of your time, and you'll feel like Radio Me is on the air, free of cookie cutters and rankings. If they'd only fix the sound quality, its pitch would be perfect...
OPEC wants to play Alan Greenspan to the world's oil economy, but rogue member Iraq and the U.S. economic slowdown could foil the oil cartel's best efforts. The cartel - which meets out in the open to fix prices, despite the fact that half its members are also members of the World Trade Organization, whose rules forbid such practices - is due to convene in Vienna next week, and is expected to agree to reduce the world's oil supply by 1.5 million barrels...
Most students taking auto mechanics, for instance, want to learn how to fix their own cars, not train to be auto mechanics, Lividoti says...