Search Details

Word: fixes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...influx of more affluent students continues, the School Committee has made clear that it will have to find a more permanent fix to the controlled-choice program, either through changing the target and changing the band, or using some measure other than free-and-reduced lunch...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Demographic flux makes more alterations to desegregation plan likely | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

Cost of a proposed state-record fine in Virginia against Verizon for poor service during the first five months of 2006. The company failed to fix approximately 170,000 phone outages within 48hr., as required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUMBERS: Nov. 12, 2007 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...down in his office with his old friend Tom Stemberg, founder of the Staples office-supply chain. "There are lots of things you can do to make this state better," Stemberg told him. "But if you really want to make a difference in the long term, you should fix the health-care system." Romney did not exactly jump at the prospect. It would cost billions of dollars; he was already facing a budget deficit and had promised not to raise taxes. Michael Dukakis had tried to tackle the same issue in 1988, and he provoked so much outrage from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitt Romney's Defining Moment | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...would cover these sorts of expenses,” Hazen writes. Other problems include preserving digital literature. According to Darnton, “No one has solved the problem of preserving such material while hardware and software change at a dizzying pace.” The current, short-term fix is to “migrate” digital collections between different hardware and software formats, but this process is complicated and time consuming.THE DEATH OF THE BOOK?With the increase in digitization, one question weighs heavily on the minds of many involved with the Harvard library system: how will...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Widener to the World Wide Web | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...year-old aunt, sits on the porch of her small house in the sweltering heat in Sabaneta, the Barinas town where Hugo Chavez was born. When Hugo was a child, she says, he told other children that he would become President, and when he did he would fix a broken water fountain in front of their school. Others, like childhood friend and neighbor Flor Figueredo, don't recall Chavez showing much political ambition back then. Except once. "He made a comment that with there being so much oil in Venezuela, look at how the streets were," she recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Everyone (Important) Is a Chavez | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | Next