Word: patch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some semblance of normal life has now returned to Dasht-e-Rivat. Farmers can be seen working the fields with wooden plows; young men mix straw and mud to patch bomb holes. One sagging roof is propped up by an unexploded Soviet bomb. But in villages like Jakdalag, 30 miles east of Kabul, the relentless assault upon civilians has taken its toll on the guerrillas. The deserted settlement is pockmarked with bomb craters and littered with spent shells, some measuring 10 ft. in length. Since bombs first began tearing the community apart three years ago, all its farmers...
...astronomers, who are still deeply disappointed by the failure of the U.S. to send off a probe to intercept the most famous comet of all, Halley's, when it returns in 1986, IRAS-Araki-Alcock was a gift from heaven. At close encounter, it appeared as a blurry patch, about three times the diameter of the full moon, near the bowl of the Big Dipper...
When Congress last December passed the 5?-per-gal. increase in the gasoline tax, designed to patch the nation's pothole-pocked highway system, it made a deal with the trucking industry. In addition to having to pay more at the pump beginning April 1, truckers found their highway-use taxes and registration fees raised, as of July 1984, from $240 a year to $1,600 for the largest rigs. As a palliative, Congress created rules to permit tandem-trailer trucks, some of them 40 tons in weight when loaded, unprecedented access to the interstate highway system and most...
...such grandiose phraseology serves only to patch together a disorganized hodgepodge of mostly superficial ideas. The book is divided into two sections, Part I. "The Path to Prosperity," outlines Hart's proposals for the economy. Part II, "National Security Today and Tomorrow," details his views on energy and weaponry. Much of what he argues in both sections comes off as a complicated acknowledgement that he has no new solutions. When discussing the current problems with monetary policy, he essentially says that the Federal Reserve should get back on target. On trade policy, he states that he is against protectionism...
This is not to say that Gary Hart does not have some solid, serious ideas buried in his grab-bag of slogans. His tacit acknowledgement that competition in the most effective way to direct resources generous interesting proposals aimed not to subsets the month but to patch up its failures. His blueprint for "Revolving Industrial Vitality" makes a lot of sense--to compile better information for investors, and to alter financial regulations to free up investment finds for businesses, especially small ones, would do much to encourage increased production. His plans for workers, providing elaborate government training and matching programs...