The service was hard to get a fix on, too.
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"No one can get a fix on the relationship," said Brooks.
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It can take ground controllers up to half a minute to get a fix on a plane's echo transponder.
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A soft pull, by contrast, is used by loan counselors to get a fix on a consumer's credit standing.
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It's hard to get a fix on her, because the characters she is playing seem to mutate with the occasion.
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One reason it's hard to get a fix on the marriages is that detailed marriage records are not tracked at the federal level.
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The granularity was necessary to get a fix on not only the victims and the supposed shooters but also on the people holding the cameras.
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You can't quite get a fix on the show—clearly it is critical, but it also understands and embraces what is attractive about that kind of populism.
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In an unintended plot twist, El Chapo's contacts with Mr Penn and Kate del Castillo, a Mexican actress, helped the Mexican authorities get a fix on his position.
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But in the context of a coach trying to get a fix on his team, it also tells us that Hornacek feels empowered enough to say anything goes.
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Changes to the GOP's new tax law, for example, could be attached to the FAA bill, "so you're going to have your tax lobbyists [trying] to get a fix on it," a Republican lobbyist told The Hill.
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A written portrait of a portrait painter is recursive from the start, but when you're trying to get a fix on the identity of an identity fixer whose own identity is coming unfixed, the whole thing goes uroboric.
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Simeon sat near the back, in the nominally black section, watching the scene through a hole he'd punched in a newspaper, trying amid the bloody frenzy to get a fix on some of the attackers so that he could describe them to the F.B.I. The bus soon proceeded to Birmingham with the thugs aboard, whereupon its occupants were badly beaten once again.
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In order to get a fix on what this will all cost, and to publicly commit itself, Congress must convene with members of vulnerable groups, and other stakeholders in the military, the civil agencies, the NGOs, and industry leaders such as the standard-setting International Stability Operations Association, to put in place the final building block — the money — which will determine if the new American policy succeeds or fails.
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Nando technicians tried, but never quite managed, to get a fix on Mitnick's location. All the while, the company was in communication with the FBI. In fact, it was required to be in touch with the FBI. During this period, increasingly computer-savvy young people were starting to figure out the holes in Unix.
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My horn was shaking like crazy and I couldn't get a fix on the mouthpiece. So that's track 49, maybe the Lord will use it in some special way sometime. Even though I don't play publicly any more, I'm ready to give it all – to Him! I keep the trombone out of the case . . .
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Teasle asks Trautman to try and contact Rambo on the radio he stole to get a fix on his position. Trautman gets Rambo to respond on the radio, calling out his Vietnam company. Rambo says that he cannot turn himself in and tells Trautman, "They drew first blood, not me". Rambo is eventually cornered by the National Guard in a mine entrance where he is hiding.
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He parachuted over Nui, but due to injuries in the bail-out, died in the surf. Hansen was the only one of the pilots who managed to get a fix on the Funafuti radio range and landed safely. His unexpected arrival was the first indication to the Navy that a Marine squadron was missing at sea. Jeans and fourteen other pilots ditched as the storm drew closer.
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By 1975, Norman Bogner had returned to the United States, making his home in Los Angeles, California. He continued writing, publishing Snowman (Dell, New York, 1978) and Arena (Delacorte, New York, 1979). In 1981, he published California Dreamers saying, “I’d been wanting to write a book about Southern California … It’s taken me six years to get a fix on the area, to understand the way things work here.”Locht, Dick.
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The captain also could have contacted controllers in Fort Worth to open their flight plan or receive radar vectoring in the area. From the conversation of the crew on the recorder the board concluded the flight encountered inclement weather conditions during the flight and was likely in inclement weather conditions when it crashed. The board concluded that the cause of the accident was the captains decision to continue flying into inclement weather at night, his not taking advantage of the nearby navigational aids to get a fix on their position, and his decision to descend despite the first officers concerns about position and terrain. In the coming years, FAA regulations pertaining to commercial flights would require that all airliners operate only on instrument flight plans when passengers are carried.
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