Word: fixes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lividoti, interim director of vocational education, says not all of the violations the state found were as serious as D'Alessandro suggested. Some violations, like the lack of advisory committees for each vocational program, were "cosmetic," he says. He adds that teachers have already begun to fix many of the problems...
...until it exploded, and then made things worse by running up your credit cards. Or while your investments were booming, you decided you could afford to save less. With stocks cratering and the economy slowing, you don't feel so flush anymore. It's time to get real and fix those giddy-times mistakes...
...CRITICS LOVE IT This is elevated soap opera filmed with patience and subtlety. A Taipei family tiptoes individually and together to the precipice of crisis: a father whose business needs a new-media fix from a Japanese swami (the marvelous Issey Ogata), a mother who seeks emotional solace in a Buddhist retreat, plus other hearts breaking from romantic despair or breaking down from old age. Opening with a wedding fracas and closing with a funeral, Yi Yi puts the trials of three generations delicately on view...
...writing this column. But he never read any of my writing as far as I can tell. He never bought me a Christmas present, never asked me how classes were going or showed much interest in my daily life. But he did teach me how to dig up potatoes, fix toilet plumbing, catch Japanese beetles at twilight in a jam jar. How to talk to a dying man. That's slowly, waiting until he has caught his breath, not asking too many questions, getting him water or melted sherbet, sitting quietly, being there. Switching on the golf...
...fix that. Bush will likely send the plan to Congress as is already, but he knows that's just the beginning. ("The president proposes, Congress disposes" is the official catch-phrase.) And Bush has signaled his willingness to frontload the plan a little to get that spending cash on the street in time for it to do some good...