Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their power restored by the New Year. "France's Y2K preparations are pretty good," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "But nothing could have prepared for this. Here you have stable infrastructure, such as pylons, being destroyed, and that's going to take a lot of man-hours to fix...
...even swear. People liked him anyway. And almost every summer, he headed for his grandfather's ranch in Cotulla. It was the perfect antidote to the brainy world he inhabited the rest of the year. On the ranch he'd ride horses, brand cattle with a LAZY G, fix windmills and tool around in a 1962 International Harvester Scout. He helped his grandpa fix a D6 Caterpillar tractor using nothing but a 3-ft.-high stack of mail-order manuals. "You have to have a lot of patience on a ranch in the middle of nowhere," he says...
...LINUX November's anti-Microsoft court ruling was the icing on the cake for Linus Torvalds' operating system. Because it is "open source"--anyone can fix bugs in its code--Linux is the least crash-prone system around. That makes it a credible alternative to Windows...
...genes in the virus, E6 and E7, attach to proteins that regulate cell division and deactivate them. HPV causes the cells to grow wildly and also destroys the mechanisms that would normally fix the problem...
...grant. And those miniscule arrow keys, about the size of a worn-down eraser? Please. It isn't much use to be able to access the Web quickly if you can't type the correct address. Crowning these indignities, the iMac has no delete button, only backspace--so to fix your mistakes, you have to use those *#&@$% arrow keys...