Word: broken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been most reluctant to discuss setting a goal of a specific percentage of black workers on construction jobs, and has, for the most part, offered only vaguer promises-which can hardly be satisfactory to blacks, who have seen many such promises produce little. OBU, for its part, has twice broken off negotiations, and quickly proceeded to militant action-a "fight-talk" attitude not conducive to improving the negotiating atmosphere...
...Egypt in August, and Captain Giora Rom, whose Mirage jet was hit in September, were traded for 52 Egyptian civilians, five soldiers and one air force pilot. After Ashkenazi's return, Israeli officials reported that the pilot had been severely tortured by his Cairo captors, and suffered several broken bones...
...SLOPPY SERVICE. Consumers Union, a nonprofit, private testing organization of which Nader is a board member, distributed 20 deliberately broken TV sets to New York City homes and asked neighborhood repairmen to fix them: only three of the 20 were properly serviced. Television, air-conditioner and many other repairmen commonly refuse even to look at a cantankerous appliance until they collect a substantial "estimate fee." Texas authorities have forced finance companies to return $1,900,000 to victims of unscrupulous and outrageously sloppy home-improvement firms. Automobile repairing has broken down so badly that automakers have instituted training programs...
...goods can now cancel the deal within ten days. California's Department of Professional and Vocational Standards has instituted a television-repair inspection system that has trimmed $15 million a year from fraudulent fix-it bills. The department tests the honesty of any suspicious repair outfit by planting deliberately broken sets in private homes; if the repairman makes unnecessary charges, his license is lifted...
Fast-improving Rowley Hazard will jump with Ferner and Platz, making a trio which should be second only to Dartmouth, Hazard has been out with a broken ankle, but will probably be ready for the carnivals and championship meets in February...