Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allen abandons coherence, chronology, and even comic timing. He jumps between love affairs, fantasies, and his distorted sense of reality--his memories--with frightening alacrity. Like a night when the nightmares refuse to end, Allen can't shield his eyes from the suffering around him but refuses to fix his gaze on any one element of pain long enough somehow to understand...
...outcry has been voluminous," one university official, who asked not to be identified, said of the school closure and conservation measures. "Someone's going to have to explain what went wrong and fix it," she added...
...that, Pentagon officials concede, still does not make the Stealth totally invisible. Soviet radar and other detection devices eventually would pick up a Stealth-type bomber, but the hope is they could not fix its location, speed and altitude until too late. By then, the plane could have launched cruise missiles or even dropped bombs...
...mayhem is occasionally the result, when swarms of tacklers bang into the ball carrier. In 1962 the Saturday Evening Post printed a story accusing him of teaching "dirty football," and later ran an article claiming that he and Wally Butts, the University of Georgia athletic director, had conspired to fix a game. Bryant sued in both cases and won settlements out of court totaling...
Chrysler has also negotiated a unique company-wide product-quality agreement with the autoworkers' union. If an assembly-line worker sees a product flaw, he is instructed to tell his foreman, who is obliged to fix it. If the problem recurs, the worker is urged to report it to the plant's new union-management quality committee...