Word: fixes
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...surface. The beautiful wouldn't look beautiful unless they looked better than the rest of us. But I do agree with Rivers about one point: when big-nosed women go up to her and say "God created this nose," she responds, "And he also created plastic surgeons to fix...
...workhorse of the helicopter EMS industry is the Bell 206 JetRanger and its successors. If you've seen a TV news helicopter, you've probably seen a Bell 206. It's popular because it is a lightweight craft that's relatively inexpensive to fix and fuel. But many versions of the 206 don't have the space or the engine power to carry the safety equipment needed to fly at night or in bad weather. Flying an underpowered helicopter blind in foul weather is a common cause of fatal crashes, safety experts say. "There's nothing wrong with the Bell...
...Until now, the U.S. mission in Afghanistan has been about propping up the Karzai government and security forces and beating back the Taliban. Plainly, that strategy has been failing, and Washington and Karzai appear to have different ideas about how to fix it. The Afghan President may seek to appear as if he's emulating his Iraqi counterparts by pushing back against those who brought him to power, but it's a far trickier game for Karzai, who lacks the alternatives available to an Iraqi government that remains close to Iran. Right now, Karzai's physical survival depends largely...
Sitting in a briefing room at the Old Executive Office Building - his office is still unfit for official visitors - Summers tells TIME that the strategic goal of all these moves is to render a massive fix for the economy but then muscle the federal budget back toward balance. "It is absolutely essential," he says, "and the President never lets us lose sight of this for an hour, that even as you do those things, you have to also be addressing the longer-range concerns. We inherited trillion-dollar deficits, and his budgets are going to show a path back toward...
...audit's finding was contested by the Pentagon. In a press release, the Army said it "had already identified problems raised by the IG and has moved aggressively to fix them." The statement says that "among the many important improvements already instituted is assigning responsibility for article testing to the Army Test and Evaluation Command instead of using outside contractors...