Mama stooped down to fix the train, but there was no train there!!

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

Swift was especially insulted by projects that tried to fix population and labor issues with a simple cure-all solution.

Legislation was also passed in 1947 and 1948 which established a permanent Agricultural Wages Board to fix minimum wages for agricultural workers.

A third-party fix for the 1541 appeared where the solid head stop was replaced by a sprung stop, giving the head a much easier life.

Efforts were limited because there was little consensus on the goals of educational reforms, and therefore on how to fix the problems.

It was Exxon's view just too expensive to fix and operate.

To increase the survivability of ICBMs, there was a proposal to use mobile launch platforms ( such as Russian SS-24 and SS-25 ) and so the need to fix the launch position had similarity to the SLBM situation.

The Company of Guinea was a Portuguese governative institution whose task was to deal with the spices and to fix the prices of the goods.

In 1811 the pumping engine at High Pit, Killingworth was not working properly and Stephenson offered to fix it.

Those, like Madison, who thought democracy in the state legislatures was excessive and insufficiently " disinterested ", wanted sovereignty transferred to the national government, while those ( like Patrick Henry ) who did not think this a problem, wanted to fix the Articles of Confederation.

According to an independent study by Ronald Beech of Game 6 of the NBA 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Kings, although the refs increased the Lakers ' chances of winning through foul calls during the game, there was no collusion to fix the game.

It was by his advice and that of a contemporary Turkish statesman that the celebrated corps of Janissaries was formed, an institution which European writers erroneously fix at a later date, and ascribe to Murad I.

So the invention of photography was really concerned with finding a means to fix and retain the image in the camera obscura.

Gerbert instructed Constantine that, if doubtful of the position of the pole star, he should fix the sighting tube of the armillary sphere into position to view the star he suspected was it, and if the star did not move out of sight, it was thus the pole star.

In the late 1920s and 1930s, this idea gained some momentum ( along with other calendar reform proposals, such as the World Calendar ), and in 1928 a law was passed in the United Kingdom authorising an Order in Council which would fix the date of Easter in that country as the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April.

A fix known as SSH Compensation Attack Detector was introduced into most implementations.

It has been rumored that while Bernstein was off trying to fix the musical Candide, Sondheim wrote some of the music for West Side Story, and that Bernstein ’ s co-lyricist billing credit mysteriously disappeared from the credits of West Side Story during the tryout, presumably as a trade-off.

The most serious issue for reactivation was stationkeeping, as one of the station's gyroscopes had failed and the attitude control system needed refueling ; these issues would need EVA to fix or replace.

It had been anticipated only to discuss problems that occurred with the deportations of the ( Greater ) German Jews ... Only after Hitler's speech of 12 December was Heydrich able, as Gerlach shows, to broaden the theme and fix a conference on the ' Final Solution of the European Jewish question '.

It has been rumored that while Bernstein was off trying to fix the musical Candide, Sondheim wrote some of the music for West Side Story, and that Bernstein's co-lyricist billing mysteriously disappeared from the credits of West Side Story during the tryout, presumably as a trade-off.

This process was used to fix atmospheric nitrogen ( N < sub > 2 </ sub >) into nitric acid ( HNO < sub > 3 </ sub >), one of several chemical processes generally referred to as nitrogen fixation.

It is alleged that some of the construction projects managed by Bechtel were either poorly implemented, failing within months of their installation, or designed in such a way that Iraqi engineers did not have the knowledge or components to fix Bechtel's proprietary technology.

His veto message objected to the measure because it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when eleven out of thirty-six states were unrepresented in the Congress, and the bill also attempted to fix, by federal law, " a perfect equality of the white and black races in every State of the Union.

User tests, which are usually performed by clients or end-users, do not normally focus on identifying simple problems such as spelling errors and cosmetic problems, nor showstopper defects, such as software crashes ; testers and developers previously identify and fix these issues during earlier unit testing, integration testing, and system testing phases.

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.

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.

As Smith noted, unions were illegal for many years in most countries, although Smith argued that it should remain illegal to fix wages or prices by employees or employers.

By determining the intersection of the two hyperbolic curves identified by this method, a geographic fix can be determined.

Trevor is approached by a sniveling Wynyard looking for his fix, but the drugs have not yet been delivered.

Nitrogen fixation by cyanobacteria in coral reefs can fix twice the amount of nitrogen than on land — around 1. 8 kg of nitrogen is fixed per hectare per day.

C < sub > 4 </ sub > plants chemically fix carbon dioxide in the cells of the mesophyll by adding it to the three-carbon molecule phosphoenolpyruvate ( PEP ), a reaction catalyzed by an enzyme called PEP carboxylase, creating the four-carbon organic acid oxaloacetic acid.

* It can induce growth arrest by holding the cell cycle at the G < sub > 1 </ sub >/ S regulation point on DNA damage recognition ( if it holds the cell here for long enough, the DNA repair proteins will have time to fix the damage and the cell will be allowed to continue the cell cycle ).

La Forge once impressed Captain Jean-Luc Picard by staying up all night to fix a shuttle craft that Picard mentioned had a superficial problem.

For example, if a problem in the requirements is found only post-release, then it would cost 10 – 100 times more to fix than if it had already been found by the requirements review.

Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.

Crisis cartels have also been organized by governments for various industries or products in different countries in order to fix prices and ration production and distribution in periods of acute shortages.

If, for example, developers are rewarded by the number of bugs they fix, they will naturally fix the easiest bugs first — leaving the hardest, and probably most risky or critical, to the last possible moment.

The doubt over the Yankees ' lasting power was amplified by baseball's sagging popularity after the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, in which eight Chicago White Sox players were expelled for conspiring with gamblers to fix that year's World Series.

The committee noted that the " experiments sponsored by these researchers ... call into question the decision by the agencies not to fix guidelines for experiments.

but they were going up to the Big House after supper, and she had to put on a clean dress and fix her hair a little.

Finally, after Nobita's pleading and / or goading, Doraemon produces a futuristic gadget out of his aforementioned pouch to help Nobita fix his problem, enact revenge, or flaunt to his friends.

Part of the Miles Glacier Bridge, with a " kludgy " temporary fix to make the bridge usable after 1964 Alaska earthquake | earthquake damage.

The idea for the contest came after they compared notes with each other about some poorly written code that they had to fix.

However, unlike most modern operating systems, firmware rarely has a well-evolved automatic mechanism of updating itself to fix any functionality issues detected after shipping the unit.

He discovered sodium thiosulfate to be a solvent of silver halides in 1819, and informed Talbot and Daguerre of his discovery that this " hyposulphite of soda " (" hypo ") could be used as a photographic fixer, to " fix " pictures and make them permanent, after experimentally applying it thus in early 1839.

** QuarkXPress 6. 52 ( 2006 )-Bug fix release, released after release of Quark 7.

** QuarkXPress 7. 5 ( 2008 )-Bug fix release, released after release of Quark 8.

A group of mostly desert plants called " CAM " plants ( Crassulacean acid metabolism, after the family Crassulaceae, which includes the species in which the CAM process was first discovered ) open their stomata at night ( when water evaporates more slowly from leaves for a given degree of stomatal opening ), use PEPcarboxylase to fix carbon dioxide and store the products in large vacuoles.

He won a sprint over breakaway companion Eduoard Muller after waiting for Muller to fix a puncture in Trappes, 22 km from the finish.

TVA spent two decades trying to fix a leakage problem that had plagued Hales Bar since its construction, but after continued leakage, and after it was determined that expanding the dam's navigation lock would be too expensive, TVA decided to replace the dam by building Nickajack Dam 6 miles ( 9. 7 km ) downstream in 1968, flooding the Nickajack Cave.

At that time however, due to the rising political controversy between the Dutch-and French-speaking communities in Belgium, a parliamentary committee ( the so called centrum Harmel, named after Pierre Harmel ) was established to fix, amongst other things, the language boundary once and for all.

The damage was eventually repaired by Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyov, who after four EVAs managed to fix two leaks but needed a special tool to fix the third.

Rhizobia are soil bacteria that fix nitrogen ( diazotrophs ) after becoming established inside root nodules of legumes ( Fabaceae ).

He informed Comiskey of the fix after the Series in an effort to gain a reward.

But these glitches usually fix themselves after a while.

However, after having screened the film with an early incomplete version of the score, the reactions at test screenings were against it and in less than a day Yared was off the project without being given a chance to fix or change his music, while Warner Bros was already looking for a replacement.

He would crouch down on the pitcher's mound and fix cleat marks, what became known as " manicuring the mound ", talk to himself, talk to the ball, aim the ball like a dart, strut around the mound after every out, and throw back balls that " had hits in them ," insisting they be removed from the game.

In this episode, when Amy asked why they had to fix him, after being met with a brief period of uncertain silence, Leela responded with " Those arguments aside, we're still going.