Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when an NVA soldier comes on my radio as clear as could be. 'Go away from Viet Nam, American G.I.,' the voice said. The people do not want you.' I wish he would have talked a little bit longer so I could have got a fix on him. It would have given me a great deal of pleasure to drop a 500-pounder on his head...
...ideas, authority, and personalities of men with whom he happened to disagree. He conferred on women the mask of reason, but behind that cover lay the clever, arrogant, self-absorbed mind of G.B.S. Lady Cicely Waynflete (Bergman) is one of Shaw's perennial Little Miss Super-Fix-Its. She just happens to be among the brigands and bedouins of North Africa rather than in the drawing rooms of Mayfair or on the battlements of Orleans...
Trying to fix the blame for the high price of food has become a national preoccupation-a noisy adult version of pin the tail on the donkey, played by politicians, supermarketeers, farmers and consumers. Yet one thing is clear: despite a recent leveling, supermarket prices will climb further during 1972. That message came out of the Price Commission's hearings on food costs last week. As Assistant Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng said: "Increases in retail food prices will, overall, be modest. There will, however, be sizable price swings in individual commodities...
...enjoys a well-plotted mystery once in a while, but finds most bestsellers depressingly poor. She tends "to fix on one author and read everything he's done. Right now I'm on a real Proust kick. I read him in college very quickly, and I'm rereading him now. I'm starting the fifth volume and I never want...
...measure a curious case. A highly successful antitrust lawyer in San Francisco before he became mayor, Alioto was asked in 1961 by the then Washington State attorney general, John O'Connell, to handle suits for triple damages against 24 electrical manufacturers that had conspired to fix prices at an improperly high level. Alioto was to be paid 15% of whatever he could recover, up to a maximum fee of $1,000,000. He eventually got the manufacturers to pay $16.2 million to his clients-the state of Washington, three cities, one port authority and eight public utility districts. Along...