jerry-rig

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's Board of Regents must refuse to jerry-rig the undergraduate admissions system to ensure a predetermined, politically correct racial and ethnic mix.

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  • If this were a Republican candidate who had gone to a foreign country and tried to jerry-rig the SOFA for personal gain, there would be Hell to pay, and rightly so. —  Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
  • Electricity for these apartments averages $50 a month, a huge sum, so people jerry-rig the power to keep the cost down. —  Workers World news online
  • 's Board of Regents must refuse to jerry-rig the undergraduate admissions system to ensure a predetermined, politically correct racial and ethnic mix. —  Phi Beta Cons
  • In recent years the best Governor Doyle and the recent Democratic Senate majority could do was jerry-rig temporary solutions and hope the economy would recover so that sales taxs and income tax revenues would increase. —  Paul Soglin: Waxing America
  • It took a month for the NCSU students to learn Unreal's tricks, secrets and foibles, then the rest of the time to learn to pump up, undo, and jerry-rig them to suit their games. —  BeyondUnreal
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  1. Alteration (influenced by jerry-build) of jury-rig.
 

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