Word: fixes
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...basis of those conversations, the Justice Department accused ADM of conspiring with other food producers to fix the price of lysine, an amino acid and an additive to animal feed. The tapes were released to the public last Friday, and showed the executives giggling as they discussed what the price of lysine should be in various markets...
...Thank you. Perhaps you can fix the traffic...
...from broken homes. But Melissa is only one of the alter egos Kolakowski has invented. Some days he masquerades online as a teenage boy looking for an assault rifle, or a sports junkie betting on the Wolverines, or an old dude with erectile dysfunction shopping for a quick Viagra fix...
They might not have to fix that many genes--just a few hundred mainly developmental ones. The genes for the immune system, for memory mechanisms and the like would all be standard for a vertebrate. To fine-tune the creature, they could go fishing in other bird genomes, or perhaps import a few ideas from lizards and turtles...
...might think that bolting the two plates together would fix the problem or at least buy a little time. But given the forces involved, holding the San Francisco Bay Area together for even a brief period of time would require bolts the size of the World Trade Center towers--an engineering feat that not even a modern-day Pharaoh could afford...