Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hacker, MacLachlan is a member of an intense, reclusive subculture of the computer age that has cropped up at the nation's top universities. The term hacker derives from "hack," meaning a subtle, sometimes elegant fix for a flaw in a computer program. Hackers spend hours typing commands on terminal keyboards to learn as much as possible about the strengths and weaknesses of a particular program or network. They tinker for the sheer fun of it, delving deeper and deeper into the mysteries of software...
...less clear, though, who gets the most out of these shows. Department-store types, impatient with any nonscheduled creative process, frequently say that these many-splendored displays give the designers a hard deadline to fix on. "They're an exam, an essay, a résumé," agrees Gianfranco Ferré. "They mean I have to get my point across in 20 minutes." The point can become blunted by both visual glut and fashion overkill, however. When the eight weeks of fall fashion previews are over, a member of the fashion corps could easily have seen more than...
...Africa, India, Asia, and Latin America) no authority has been able to suppress it for long." Solomon believes the issues raised by the existence of psychoactive substances transcend the risks and benefits of any particular drug: "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate or fix the levels of consciousness to which man may aspire, whether these states are reached pharmacologically or otherwise...
With only minutes to go before three, McClure called in the Cambridge Fire Department and Kirkland superintendent to fix the alarms in the main building. They failed, and she called house tutors and told them to wake students in their entries...
...first step-no doubt a politically painful one for Reagan-would be to set his fanciful wish list for START aside and begin negotiating, and ratifying, a quick fix of the SALT II treaty. A mounting chorus, including the voices of moderate Republicans as well as the more predictable Democrats, is trying to persuade the President of the absurdity of leaving the treaty in limbo while trying to enforce its terms in cases of questionable Soviet activity...