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Pharmaceutical Firm Discussed Its Ties to Cohen With Mueller

By KATIE THOMAS and CECILIA KANG 4:16 PM ET

The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said that it had spoken to lawyers for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, about its payments to a shell company controlled by Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer and longtime fixer.

The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio

By KEITH GESSEN

Can Washington’s “Russia hands” help explain why the post-Cold War relationship has gone off the rails?

Trump Comments, Infuriating Africans, May Set Back U.S. Interests
By KIMON de GREEF and SEWELL CHAN


Experts fear that the president’s about remarks “shithole countries” could set back United States interests in the world’s fastest-growing continent.




front page of the Financial Times UK edition for January 9

http://on.ft.com/2ElqRiD

The tax authority, however, concluded that the expenditures included compensation for lost jobs and commission fees for "fixers" to prevent possible trouble, the sources said.(IHT/Asahi: May 10,2008)

Authors are seen as rather serene, noble characters, licking their pencils, perpetually looking out the window for inspiration – not bound to the nine to five like the rest of us, but picking beautiful sentences out of the air like passing butterflies, which they trap and affix decoratively to the page.

The Quiet American - Wikipedia

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The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene which depicts French colonialism in Vietnam being uprooted by the Americans during the ...

affix

tr.v., -fixed, -fix·ing, -fix·es.

1. To secure to something; attach: affix a label to a package.
2. To impute; attribute: affix blame to him.
3. To place at the end; append: affix a postscript to a letter.
4. Grammar. To add as an affix.

n. (ăf'ĭks')

1. Something that is attached, joined, or added; an appendage or addition.
2. Linguistics. A word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that can only occur attached to a base, stem, or root.

[Medieval Latin affixāre, frequentative of Latin affīgere, affix- : ad-, ad- + fīgere, to fasten.]

affixable af·fix'a·ble adj.

affixal af'fix'al adj.

affixally af'fix'al·ly adv.

affixer af·fix'er n.

fix (ARRANGE)
verb [I or T] MAINLY UK
to arrange or agree a time, place, price, etc:
Shall we fix a time for our next meeting?
I understand the rent is fixed at £750 a month.

fixed
adjective
arranged or decided already and not able to be changed:
a fixed price
fixed interest rates
Is the date of the wedding fixed yet?

fixer 
noun [C] INFORMAL
someone who is skilled at arranging for things to happen, especially dishonestly

• 1A person who makes arrangements for other people, especially of an illicit or devious kind.
  

  Fixer |特朗普“平事人”的倒戈

  那個曾經幫總統擺平麻煩的人如今成了他的麻煩。特朗普前私人律師邁克爾·科恩上週在國會作證，稱特朗普為“騙子”(con man)、“作弊者”(cheat)，宣布與他劃清界限—— 不再當他的“平事人” (Fixer)。

  在科恩的證詞中， Fixer一詞頻頻出現。這個單詞的詞根是fix，意為“修理”、“固定”等。但加上後綴“er”，fixer所表達的含義遠不止“修理工”。根據韋氏詞典，該詞可以用於表示“為使某人能夠規避法律或獲得政治利益而進行干預的人”、或“通過談判調整事情或爭端的人”，也就是俗話說的那些能“擺平”事情的人。

  在英式英語中，fixer還可以指膠片攝影中必不可少的“定影劑”。

• 2mass noun  A substance used for fixing a photographic image.

在新聞行業裡，fixer也是常見的角色。當一名外國記者前往陌生的國家進行報導，一般都會招募一名fixer，幫助進行語言翻譯、背景調查等。






[集合的に] fox
可算名詞 キツネ 《★【解説】 「ずる賢い」(sly) というイメージがあり，鶏が好物とされる; 雄ギツネは dog fox，雌ギツネは vixen，bitch fox，子ギツネは cub; cf. Reynard; ほえ声は犬と同じく bark; 英国の貴族趣味の代表的スポーツに foxhunting がある》.
b
可算名詞 雄ギツネ (cf. vixen 1).
c
不可算名詞 キツネの毛皮.
2
可算名詞 こうかつな人，ずるい人.

a sly old fox 老獪(ろうかい)な人.
3
可算名詞 《米俗》 性的魅力のある女性.
名詞としての「fox」のイディオムやフレーズ

(as) cúnning as a fóx
動詞 他動詞
1a
〈人を〉欺く，だます.
b〈問題などが〉難しすぎて〈人を〉まごつかせる.
2
〈本のページ・印画などを〉変色させる 《★通例受身で用いる》.

be badly foxed ひどく変色している.
自動詞
ずるいことをする.
【語源】
古期英語から; 原義は「(ふさふさした)尻尾のある動物」; 形容詞 foxy