Word: fixes
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...most serious incident to date trapped residents Ellen Harkavy '01 and Erin E. Conroy '01 for more than two hours last week. According to Harkavy, the Harvard maintenance operator was unable to release them or fix the elevator, and two hours passed before an elevator company technician arrived...
...fire trucks were gone, but work was just beginning to fix the electrical problem...
Inside the center, it was even worse. "The whole world fell apart," said an FAA employee on duty. First, the system started rebooting, distorting the critical information the radars displayed. When no quick fix could be found, the controllers who direct the almost 7,000 flights a day that flow through the airspace were switched to the emergency system. Some of them were not up to speed on that version, though, and they became confused and started yelling, "The backup system isn't working!" The problem was caused by what an agency spokesman called a glitch in the software--installed...
...distributed worldwide after it has been reviewed by only one moderator in a newsgroup--or even no one at all. ("The horror! The horror!") To deal with this new development, our irrational fear of the Internet--and our irrational faith in the power of a technological quick fix--must both be discarded. When faced with such a powerful medium, society simply can't afford to let computers make all the decisions. Instead, we'll have...
...years, thanks to a strong-willed new President and a public that is fed up with rigged markets and insider deals. The insurance crackdown was its biggest to date, but earlier in the summer, the Authority slapped $320 million in penalties on eight oil companies for conspiring to fix gasoline prices. Even earlier, it fined the country's two main cellular-phone operators for setting identical prices for fixed-to-mobile calls. The Authority has even taken on Gorgonzola-cheese producers, forbidding them to set production ceilings for individual producers...