Word: fixed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ties all other reforms together. "It's no accident that the major parties aren't addressing the income gap and are ignoring the failed war on drugs," says Harshbarger. "The constituencies that are hurt by these issues aren't donating millions of dollars to the political parties. Unless you fix campaign finance, you can't move on to the other issues." Still, it seems a curiously arbitrary trio of concerns--particularly the drug-war component, which scores scarcely a blip in any catalog of the public's disenchantments. Why single out drug laws instead of guns, for example...
Rasiej recalls an Internet server going down just before a high school was scheduled to go online in a critical demonstration for the board of education. "No one knew how to fix it," he says, "so we went back to our database and sent out a message for help." An hour and a half later, there was a knock on the door. A computer engineer walked in and said, "I got your e-mail. Where do I start...
...single people paid higher tax rates than they would have if they had been married. So an organized singles lobby--there really was one at the time--pressed Washington for a remedy, and thus the marriage penalty was born. Now married people are complaining. But if they get their fix, it won't be long before the singles pipe up again...
...economic calculus of conventions may necessitate fudging on a few broken windows or resorting to the architectural equivalent of placing a coffee table over a carpet stain just to fill city coffers and attract positive media spin. And that's fine - as a quick fix. But after all the conventioneers have pulled up camp and gone back to their daily lives in Iowa and Colorado, Philadelphia's leadership would be well advised to take another hard look at their town and earmark a few million of that convention money for a round of serious, uncynical renovation. Because reality will...
...that this is a 42-year-old multimillionaire preppie known to ski in boxer shorts and throw Frisbees at conferences, who even dressed as Batman to inaugurate a Manhattan office. Today, Draper tells the assembled pastors, he is ready to spend at least $20 million of his fortune to "fix education." Moreover, he adds, "it won't cut into my lifestyle...