Search Details

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


Usage:

...Clearly, in the Finance Committee we will not get what we want to become law because we don't have the votes," pro-Bush taxman Phil Gramm (R-TX) said of the fine-tuning ahead. "So we'll do the best we can, pass it on the floor and fix it in (House-Senate) conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why This Is Just the End of the Beginning For the Budget Fight | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

...seems too easy a fix for a problem that has bedeviled development experts for a century. But De Soto's commonsense simplicity, laid out in his latest book, The Mystery of Capital, has heads of state from Haiti to Pakistan lining up for his advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Underground Riches | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...service, awful food. Terrible. But the articles are talking about people in the air or in the airports, and not about the vastly greater numbers on the ground who are brutalized as the planes pass overhead. The solution to squalid air travel that experts propose is analogous to the fix (turn up the volume) when loud planes interrupt your television watching. All will be well if you build more runways, more airports, if you schedule more flights, and fling more profit-making, noise-making metal into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Pollution: The Sky Has Its Limits | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...election, the state of Florida will no longer be the sinkhole of American democracy, now that the Republican-dominated state legislature (remember that phrase?) passed - nearly unanimously - a comprehensive, better-luck-next-time, $32 million fix for their rickety electoral machinery. Provisions run the gamut from a statewide installation of optical-scanner and touch-screen voting machines to a $6 million voter education program, the state's first-ever expenditure in that area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Error-Free Florida Election Brought to You By eBay | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

Justin Cooper, a third-year student who is the outgoing vice-president of the Law School Council, says instituting the law colleges may not be enough to fix HLS' problems...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School Begins Faculty, Student Life Initiatives | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

Previous | 388 | 389 | 390 | 391 | 392 | 393 | 394 | 395 | 396 | 397 | 398 | 399 | 400 | 401 | 402 | 403 | 404 | 405 | 406 | 407 | 408 | Next