`` Very few wives '', says Dr. Calderone, `` who balance the checkbook, fix the car, choose where the family will live and deal with the tradesmen, are suddenly going to become submissive where sex is concerned.

If the balance factor becomes − 2 or + 2 then the subtree is unbalanced and needs to be rotated to fix it.

A man named John H. Winn introduced the " don't pass " betting option in order to fix this problem and it is this version of craps that still exists today.

Terrestrial Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting ( ISDB-T ) is a system designed to provide good reception to fix receivers and also portable or mobile receivers.

Blending is most easily done with a medium that does not immediately fix itself, such as graphite, chalk, or charcoal, although freshly applied ink can be smudged, wet or dry, for some effects.

It is analogous to deciding what to do with a damaged car: p53 brings everything to a halt, and then decides whether to fix the cell or, if the cell is beyond repair, to destroy the cell.

In the case that a vendor is notified and a fix is not produced within a reasonable time, disclosure is generally made to the public.

As long as a vulnerability is not widely known to the public ( with enough detail to reproduce the attack ), vendors may refuse to fix the vulnerability or refuse to give it enough priority to actually repair it.

A major invasion of the Alamanni and other Germanic tribes occurred somewhere between 258 and 260 ( it is hard to fix the precise date of these events ).

A common patch to fix this is to introduce a new function, called ( Mac OS X ) or ( freeglut / OpenGLUT ), which runs only a single iteration of the GLUT event loop.

Frozen section is a rapid way to fix and mount histology sections.

It is a necessary way to fix tissue for certain stain such as antibody linked immunofluorescence staining.

It also is sometimes used as a euphemism for the practice of inbreeding, a practice that is generally frowned upon by horse breeders, though used by some in an attempt to fix certain traits.

Jambon de Paris is a wet-cured, boneless ham, which is served cold in thin slices and is a favourite of French families, especially children, to fix a quick meal.

Kuwait made several representations to the Iraqis during the war to fix the border once and for all but Baghdad repeatedly demurred, claiming that the issue is a potentially divisive one that could inflame nationalist sentiment inside Iraq.

* 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

A kludge is often used to fix an unanticipated problem in an earlier kludge ; this is essentially a kind of cruft.

Rather than continue to struggle to find out exactly what is causing the bug and how to fix it, the programmer may hack the problem by the simple kludge of writing new code which compensates.

Public disclosure of the whole would not take place until the vendor had readied a patch to fix it.

He believes that access gives hackers the opportunity to take things apart, fix, or improve upon them and to learn and understand how they work.

To take an extreme example, if a program design turns out to be impossible to implement, it is easier to fix the design at the design stage than to realize months later, when program components are being integrated, that all the work done so far has to be scrapped because of a broken design.

It was know that certain legumes could take up nitrogen from the air and fix it to the soil.

If a direct visual fix cannot be taken, it is important to take into account the curvature of the Earth when calculating line-of-sight from maps.

Conventional navigation techniques are then used to take a radio fix.

This angle is then displayed in the cockpit of the aircraft, and can be used to take a fix just like the earlier RDF systems, although it is easier to use.

They go to a high-rise building to fix a faulty air conditioning system when a group of terrorists incapacitate all of the occupants with knockout gas and take over the building.

Robert's Rules provides that " in the absence of a quorum, any business transacted is null and void ," except for actions which can be legally taken: To fix the time to which to adjourn, adjourn, recess, or take measures to obtain a quorum.

If the builder fails to do this or has gone out of business, NHBC will take responsibility to fix the defect.

When engaged, the master sweep would fix a cloth over the fireplace, and the climbing boy would take off his boots and any excess clothes, then get behind it.

Gandil enlisted several of his teammates, motivated by a dislike of club owner Charles Comiskey whom they perceived as a tightwad, to implement the fix ; Comiskey had developed a reputation for underpaying his players for years ( under the MLB reserve clause, players either had to take the salary they were offered, or couldn't play Major League Baseball, as they were property of the original team, and no other team was allowed to sign them ).

This bearing is then displayed in the cockpit of the aircraft, and can be used to take a fix as in earlier radio direction finding ( RDF ) systems, although it is, in theory, easier to use and more accurate.

Number plates normally accompany owners rather than cars: therefore that when an owner replaces his car he will take his old number plate to his new car, while the new owner of the old car will need to fix on it his own existing number plate, if he has one available, or otherwise apply for a new number.

LaVey rejects the idea of prayer, instead urging Satanists to take action to fix a situation instead of asking for a solution.

A practical example of obtaining a position fix would be for a ship to take bearing measurements on three lighthouses positioned along the coast.

Since the setting and characters were already established, Lake decided that the primary goal of the sequel was " to keep what's good and fix what was not so good ", and to take the story in surprising directions.

When the decision is made to intervene action is taken to fix the target, confirming that the intervention will have a high probability of success and restricting the ability of the target to take independent action.

Constantine responded that he had been forced to take on the role, as the Roman people had been looking for someone to fix the problems left behind by Pope Paul I.

In order to take a fix, the receiver takes two measurements based on two different stations.

Along with the motion to fix the time to which to adjourn, recess, and take measures to obtain a quorum, it is one of the only motions allowed in the absence of a quorum.

Investigation of the problem would take most of 1946 before a fix was found.

Due to this, Katherine and Billy take Tommy on a ski vacation and try, unsuccessfully, to fix Tommy up with another girl.

The patch may take weeks or months to develop, but it's intended to fix most bugs and problems with the game.

Alternatively, one can fix a circle and a point on the curve and take the envelope of the translations taking that point to the circle.