Word: fix
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...announced it will lay off 214 employees in January. "This city is like a house that's been neglected for twelve years," says Voinovich. Indeed, an aging storm sewer system regularly floods Cleveland basements. Swimming pools were closed last summer because the city could not afford to fix broken plumbing. Voinovich wants to raise revenues for such maintenance needs by increasing the city income tax from 1.5% to 2%. Last week, on the second anniversary of default, the city council voted to put that proposal, even though voters defeated it in November, back on the ballot in February. Says...
...popular figure among the 20,000 nationalist guerrillas still under arms. It was feared that his conviction might spark a violent reaction from ZANU militants. On the other hand, his acquittal seemed likely to enrage the country's 190,000 whites, prompting charges of a political fix and accelerating a white exodus that is now running at a rate of more than 1,000 a month. Wary of all these dangers, Mugabe insisted that the law should take its course...
There is no quick fix for the Everything Crisis caused by energy prices...
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...