Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hundreds of thousands of other products covered by a warranty only to have the product quickly break down. When the consumer reads the warranty's fine print, he discovers that the document is so filled with exceptions and qualifications as to make the manufacturer's promise to fix or replace the item almost useless. That situation is likely to become far less common in the years ahead because of the first of a series of strict new warranty regulations issued recently by the Federal Trade Commission under the Warranty...
...self-paced section, see, and he let himself get a little behind during the term. But he realized that he was in a fix, so he got all his other work out of the way in order to concentrate during vacation and reading period on the math. Well, vacation sort of slipped away, and he wasn't too interested in math anyway, but when he got back to Harvard he was ready to get to work...
...sand. We shall doubtless in time have tested that hypothesis, but we can be fairly confident that to the very end there would be those in the West convinced that the sand had gone to build swimming pools for the rich-in the West. Yeats sensed the mood: "Come fix upon me that accusing eye/I thirst for accusation...
Moreover, OPEC has proved remarkably resilient because its members are well aware that their power to fix prices lies in their ability to maintain a united front. Thus cartel members have been able to hold traditional animosities in check-at least so far. Iran and Iraq managed to settle a long-smoldering border dispute, and radical Algeria fell in line behind Saudi Arabia's moderate pricing policies when the Saudis presented Algeria with a generous loan. Un-gluing OPEC, if it could still be done at all, would require extraordinarily disruptive measures by the U.S.; for example, actively fostering...
...salvo by the FTC against no-advertising rules by lawyers, architects, veterinarians and other professionals besides doctors. The commission's argument is that these codes of ethics prevent the consumer from learning about the type and cost of available services. That in turn lessens competition and tends to fix prices illegally, the FTC contends...