Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will save them." The target of that legal wrath is the practice among many state and local bar associations of establishing "minimum fee schedules." Now the warnings and threats have ended in action: the Justice Department has charged the Oregon State Bar Association with an illegal conspiracy "to raise, fix, stabilize and maintain fees charged for rendering legal services." Added Clearwaters last week: "There will probably be other cases as well...
Garrett also permitted a general rise in commission rates to bring some relief to Wall Street's beleaguered brokers. In exchange he set a firm deadline of April 30, 1975, for scrapping fixed commissions on all trades and substituting negotiated commissions. "We decided," says Garrett, "to stop the uncertainty and fix the timetable." That comment underscores his determination to set in motion reforms that have been stuck in the SEC's pipeline for years. One of the more important is a proposal to flash on a single composite tape the latest prices for securities traded on any exchange...
...troubleshooting an engine. Briefly, motor maintenance requires a good deal of quiet concentration so that the underlying principles of the engine are allowed to fill the gap between the object (engine) and the subject (mechanic). A Zen monk would say that under such conditions, the fixer and the fixed are no longer opposing objects but one reality. The author is more practical. Among other things, he suggests that if you cannot fix the bike yourself, at least avoid garages where the mechanics play the radio...
...know what they do, the mayors and those people? They say the cities are dying. Then they go and ask the main government in Washington for money. So they get the money and what do they do? They fix up the cities where they live, not where we live. Any minute we can get a letter that says we have to move too. So we'd have to go. Maybe to a project or to some other place. That's what you call urban renewal. I think it's a crime what they do to families. It's like murder...
They call him Dr. Happiness. He is in charge of giving Richard Nixon a fortnightly fix of cheer...