Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rossi became a national superhero Endorsement offers flowed in and a leading manufacturer granted him a lifetime supply of shoes. For Italy's leading scorer the irony was particularly striking. Just six months before he had been a national embarassment banned from organized soccer for collaborating with gamblers to fix games. Now he was worshipped...
...kind of leak turned up in the No. 3 engine. Faced with this mounting crisis on the eve of a launch, Abrahamson rushed out to the pad, clambered up the launch tower and personally inspected the inner plumbing of the engines. It became clear that NASA's original fix had only exacerbated the problem: instead of preventing chafing during the vibrations at full power, the brazing and extra sleeves had made the fuel lines so stiff that they cracked during test firings...
...Justice Department has brought no criminal charges against Crandall or American, but it does contend that Crandall's words amounted to an effort at illegal monopolization, even though no agreement to fix prices was actually made. That could be because Putnam was in no mood to agree with Crandall about pricing, or for that matter much of anything. The Government wants Crandall thrown out of his job. In its suit, it asks that Crandall be enjoined from serving as president of American or any other airline for two years...
...record it without letting the other party know. William Baxter, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, let it be known last week that he thinks company bosses should always record their phone conversations with other company bosses. That would make it harder, reasoned Baxter, to try to fix prices over the phone. Many businessmen found the idea absurd. Could wired golf carts and bugged swizzle sticks be far behind? -By John S. DeMott. Reported by David S. Jackson/Washington and Allen Pusey /Dallas
...different people from one night to the next, that takes something that not every man has--it takes a lot of heart. For that much respect he gives me, I give him all I can. If Stewart tells me there's a problem, I'd spend my time to fix it because he cared enough to say, 'Hey, lend me a hand...