Word: fix
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Commissioner makes is a fair one. Unfortunately, I am afraid to say that I have little confidence that this will happen. I must stress that I am not saying that either he or his office is in any way acting in bad faith, and yet I feel that 'the fix is in.' Why is this so? Because it has become clear to me that Cortese has gradually and imperceptibly let the policy process become skewed in Harvard's favor...
...became painfully clear at the Blackpool conference that Callaghan's celebrated skill for behind-the-scenes persuasion was no longer working. The comforting byword "Jim will fix it" had turned into hostile criticism of "Jim's fudge and nudge." Callaghan came to politics out of the trade union movement and had always counted on the union leaders, who tend to be nonideological, to keep the party on a comfortable center-socialist course. But this time the unions could not fall in behind him because they were beset by their own left-right split-shop-floor militants vs. traditionalist...
...search by some modern leaders for the quick fix has often magnified the problems, insists Kissinger. "The effective use of governmental power today is an accumulation of nuances. It is a hundred things done a little better; failure is a hundred things done a little worse. Power is not one big breakthrough...
...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...