"One of my priorities this Congress will be to move heaven and earth to fix our education system for the most vulnerable, " he said, endorsing plans for a new funding formula now being used in San Francisco public schools.

NPR: Cantor Offers Softer GOP Message

He had been sent to fix a puncture on an earth mover in Sandwich when the incident happened.

BBC: Matthew Hoare

In America, the famous aerial pictures of Long Island's Levittown in the 1950s, which showed identical, boxy houses marching across bare earth, helped fix a depressing image of suburbia.

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