For all his talk of reform, Mr Lee is far too pragmatic to fix something that is not broken.
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When you need to fix something, there is nothing like being hands-on.
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To fix something you have to take your hands off the keyboard and wedge your fat finger between the offending characters and then futz with the selection boxes.
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But when the movie was re-released in theaters in 2002 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Spielberg tried to fix something that was not broken and "updated" the movie's visual effects.
The man, wearing a black overcoat, approached the bus purposefully in heavy morning snow as soldiers were boarding, set down his umbrella and went under the chassis as if to fix something, according to a witness.
Everyone has one, but no one is willing to open them up and fix them if something goes wrong, he said.
Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, says the BP oil disaster shows that the industry knows how to drill in deepwater, but doesn't have the technology to fix problems if something goes awry.
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Now, if you break it, you made a mistake, it's the wrong thing to do, but you own it and then you got to fix it and do something with it.
We live in a culture that is so quick-fix oriented, so if something doesn't lead to dramatic and huge change overnight we give up.
In the world of agriculture, as with popular medicine, the theory is to treat the symptom (in this case insect invasions) and to hope that by the time fix becomes ineffective we have something else figured out to spray, engineer or swallow to re-bandaid the problem.
"It was a real challenge to finish once we had lost the foil, our speed dropped so much so we knew we had to do something drastic to fix it, " said Moshin Al Busaidi, the 37-year-old Omani sailor who shot to fame in 2009 when he became the first Arab to sail non-stop around the world in just 76 days.
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The idea that it could betray him, that there is nothing he can do to sufficiently fix it now, is not something he appears capable of thinking.
However, this all too frequent occurrence is also something that is easy to fix.
And they were now doing something that was going to fix me, improve my life.
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But it's not something that is easy to fix - narcissists are notorious for dropping out of therapy.
The Republicans achieved a permanent fix to the Alternative Minimum Tax, something they were afraid to do when they were in the majority because it reduces projected revenues.
Lets stop something that is an easy fix !!!
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Andrew Young QC, for the Duke of Buccleuch, called it "a rather bizarre attempt" to fix a contract on the duke for something an undercover officer did in the execution of his normal investigatory role.
And amidst all this something has to be done to fix the economy.
The graphics on the UI, however, aren't quite finalized and looked a bit choppy at times as we were scrolling through, something the company has promised to fix before launch.
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There's a problem, everybody's upset about gas prices -- let's find some short-term, quick-fix, that we can say we did something even though, even though we're not really doing anything.
It's not something that's impossible to fix, of course.
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Everyone seems to get that we need to fix our debt problem by reducing government spending on something.
Unfortunately, it also means customers don't always have the easiest time finding what they want, something the Palo Alto firm plans to fix with a new update it's rolling out today.
But the secretary, who is the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), seemed to stop short of a broad and permanent fix to the way Wall Street is regulated--something others on Capitol Hill and elsewhere have demanded.
But if something does happen, it would be added to the fix, is the idea?
If we get something wrong, please let us know so we can fix it and learn from the mistake.
If something is not working, we go out there and fix it.
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