Word: fixes
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...skipped all of the usual suspects. I still say they should kick synchro out of the Games, and some of the new stuff like trampolining has to go. Triathlon can stay. There are too many gymnastics events and too many swim races. I did figure out how to fix a couple of things. In gymnastics you have to be at least 15 years old, right? So let's make that ridiculous rhythmic gymnastics for kids under 10! Wouldn't that be nice, little kids with those ribbons and hoops? Caroline could enter. And the 20-kilometer walk: Make...
However, there is no "quick fix" for increasing voter interest, Gans said...
...founding of the MWRA was in part an attempt to avoid the quick fix that had characterized Boston's cleanup efforts up to that point and permanently cure the harbor's sewage problems...
...Northwestern players ultimately pleaded guilty to gambling charges growing out of a point-shaving scheme to fix three basketball games in 1995. In return for payoffs from gamblers, the players agreed to hold down the score so that Northwestern would lose by more than the oddsmakers' point spread...
...legal way to bet on college games, gamblers would wager illegally and contribute further to the growth in illegal gambling. To promote this view, the industry bought ads in newspapers warning of the consequences if Congress eliminates legal sports betting in Nevada. Under a headline declaring s. 2340: A "FIX" ONLY A BOOKIE COULD LOVE in the Washington Post on June 22, Harrah's Entertainment Inc. admonished, "If Congress bans legalized betting on college sports, it will make a lot of illegal bookies very happy. Because eliminating the only regulated, legitimate way to gamble on college games...