Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, a lot of fight fans who had paid up to $1,000 for a seat came away feeling cheated. Cries of "Fix!" echoed through the embarrassingly uncrowded Superdome and carried over into the narrow streets and bars of the nearby French Quarter far into the night. The Louisiana Athletic Commission slapped the fighter with a $7,500 fine for "unsatisfactory performance...
...what artist of his generation could inject more evocative intensity into his work, or fix it with such deft, concise images...
Richard Moll, 45, a tweedy graduate of Yale's Divinity School, has become a Dr. Fix-It for colleges that complain of sagging enrollment. As director of admissions for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., Moll brought a slice of pizazz to the countrified, 186-year-old alma mater of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Moll persuaded Bowdoin to allow applicants to skip the College Board exams, an attention-getting move, and he issued a new college brochure splashed with photos of sunsets, lobster pots and the Maine seacoast. Results during Moll's eight years at Bowdoin, applications...
...Fix-It has taken on yet another patient, this time a newish school suffering from a trendy reputation rather than the handicaps of tradition-the University of California at Santa Cruz...
...first, dubbed Vesco I by Government lawyers, he offered four Georgians $10 million in late 1976 if they could persuade the incoming Carter Administration to fix his legal problems. The group in turn paid W. Spencer Lee IV, a lawyer from Albany, Ga., $10,000 to talk with his longtime friend and Carter confidant Hamilton Jordan about Vesco's plight. Lee met first with Carter Aide Richard M. Harden, who, claims Lee, persuaded him not to see Jordan. Lee says he then dropped the scheme entirely. After investigating Vesco I for 18 months, a federal grand jury in Washington...