Word: do-it-yourself
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...Haul customers in the oil-producing regions of Texas and Louisiana are understandably upset. In those areas, the price of renting a truck or trailer from the do-it-yourself moving company seems to have shot out of reason. It costs $2,009, for example, to hire a 24-ft. U-Haul truck for a move from Midland, Texas, to Jacksonville. A Florida resident can rent the same truck in the opposite direction for only...
Their problems start with some little do-it-yourself fix-ups: on a rotted stair riser and a front-door lock that sticks. Working on them, Walter somehow causes both the stairway and the entranceway to collapse. That says nothing about what happens to the chimney when he carelessly tosses a log into the second-floor fireplace. What termites and neglect have put asunder eventually requires a crew of 100 to set to rights. And what happens to all of them when Anna innocently plugs a kitchen appliance into the workers' heavy- equipment circuit one sunny morning both defies description...
Meanwhile, many desperate businesses and municipalities have started practicing do-it-yourself insurance. The smaller cities and companies do this by joining together to create a reserve of cash from which claims can be paid. Larger ones simply salt away what they think will be enough money to cover any lawsuit. Then they start hoping that they will not be sued...
Resourceful as ever, PEtty and the redoubtlable Roger decide they will have to make do with what they have. We find Roger consucting military exercises and falling into the duck pond. Roger patrolling the yard falling into the duck pond, Roger ezperimenting with do-it-yourself bean can bombs and falling into the duck pond. One of their better ideas is to convert a microwave oven into a missile deflector. Unfortunately, this piece of genius is ultimately stymied by Roger's lack of techincal expertise...
Do-it-yourself kits have many reached life and death proportions, as the United States Food and Drug Administration recently authorized a California biotechnology firm to manufacture an over-the-counter cancer detection...