Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the end of the hostage crisis in Iran is helping to depress the cost of gold. Explains a senior gold trader at a leading New York bank: "In a sense, the gold market has become almost like a drug addict, needing more and more of a bad-news fix to get high." Recently there has just not been enough bad news to keep the market...
...consortium between the ice scream scoopers of Cahaly's has revealed the interesting fact that the HARVARD WOMEN's BASKETBALL TEAM remains their most ardent and consistent customers, coming in en masse virtually every evening for their usual ice cream fix, much like the hapless bar-frequenter who returns to his favorite watering hole for his usual stuff...
...mirrors will be ground to an accuracy of better than a millionth of an inch, tolerances that would be wasted in a ground-based instrument because of atmospheric disturbances. The telescope's pointing system, locking onto guide stars and controlled by flywheels, will be able to fix on an object the size of a dime at a distance of 400 miles...
...across his glass dinner table and arranges her blouse to show her right breast. The makeup man starts a blower to make her hair blossom. Gallant clicks away: "That is great, wonderful . . . bring that hand just a little closer . . . that's right, give me tits again ... let me fix the hair. . ." Between shots Apples curls up like a cat and sings softly to herself. The next morning she is booked on a flight to Europe, and that night she is sleeping like an angel in Le Grand Hotel in Rome...
Giuseppi Foti, Reggio Calabria's superintendent of antiquities, is preparing to take back these Greek gifts from the Ionian Sea and has been working on what he hopes will be the definitive fix on their authorship and origin. Among Foti's theories, the most probable could be that a Roman ship returning from plundering Greece was caught in a storm, and the statues were jettisoned to save the vessel from foundering...