Word: fixing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Otis elevator company mechanics were on the scene Monday trying to fix the two elevators damaged by the fire. One is running on a temporary permit, but it is not known when the other will be in working condition, according to Ron Roberts, the building superintendent...
What is remarkable about the current cutbacks is that they come at a time when the gross national product is expanding at a respectable 2.5% annual rate. The goal of the slimming exercise, then, is not merely to compensate for hard times -- though a quick fix for short-term profits is always welcome -- but to have a permanent effect. Says Alfred Rappaport, an accounting professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management: "Restructuring will be a way of life for a long, long time." Reason: the forces that prompted the movement are still growing in power and momentum...
...asbestos was removed because some of the pipes have leaks, Curtin said, adding that Harvard has to remove the insulation before it can fix the leak. "We were notified by the building manager in order to get to a leak in the pipes," she said. "There was no health hazard...
...they had said, look, we don't think that people who do drugs are apt to be competent, then that would have been one thing. It's just barely conceivable that Nixon's men broke into Watergate because their boss needed a fix, or that Ivan Boesky was just trying to scrape some money together for another vial of crack. But the given rationalization, if any, was simply that drug takers are lawbreakers. Case closed...
During the week before the alleged rape, the victim received "several sexually explicit and threatening phone calls," wrote Dean of the College Stephen Fix a letter distributed to students...