Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with his problem. Jane Ullman, a Santa Monica, Calif., sculptor, thought her refrigerator problems were over when deliverymen installed a new deluxe model in her kitchen. But her woes were just beginning; the workmen broke the refrigerator's copper pipes, which took several visits from repairmen to fix. "People have learned to take shoddy service in stride," she says wearily. Even when they speak up and get their money back, consumers often come away with a feeling of being abused. Earlier this month, when a Los Angeles homemaker took back a foul-smelling piece of fish to a supermarket...
...thought the honor system was great. I don't ever remember seeing someone cheat," says Norma Jean T. Fix '54, now a resident of Marlborough, Massachusetts...
Since Radcliffe and Harvard students enrolled in their classes together, the female students could only have unproctored exams when the class was sufficiently large to merit administering exams seperately to men and women, Fix says. "Whenever we had to take exams at Harvard, having those proctors walk up and down [the aisles] would drive me completely nuts...
...past decade, Lisbon and Peking have agreed that Macao, the tiny Portuguese colony and gambler's Mecca at the mouth of the Pearl River, would eventually return to Chinese rule. A major hitch, however, has been the & inability of the two sides to fix a date for Portugal to relinquish its administration of the 6-sq.-mi. enclave...
...structural problems can be overcome and the bugs worked out of the electronic warfare system. "There are always problems with new aircraft," explains Lieut. General William Thurman, commander of the aeronautical systems division responsible for the B-1B. "There's nothing wrong we won't be able to fix." But many observers contend that the fundamental shortcomings of weight and fuel consumption will permanently limit the utility of the airplane. Even Air Force insiders doubt the ability of the troubled electronic jamming system to assure the B-1B's mission to penetrate Soviet airspace. In particular, the black boxes...