Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programs would work better if private business had a bigger voice in designing and managing them. Perhaps businessmen, who as a class are effective at solving problems and getting things done, could bid on projects to raze and rebuild sections of the underclass ghettos, providing shops, industries and services on a model?and ultimately profitmaking?basis. Business could also take over much of the job training now carried out in government centers under federal programs and probably do it better and cheaper and even profitably. Tax incentives, for example, could be designed to reward employers who hire the long-term...
...estimates that only one out of every ten who start a plane ever finishes it. Said Roger Rourke, a machinist who spent nine years building his brightly painted, red and yellow Starduster: "It took six years to build it, 15 seconds to crash it, and three more years to rebuild it." Rourke's perseverance paid off: last week he won the EAA'S grand champion Custom Built Award...
...Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of eight oil companies, hopes to rebuild the station by mid-September, after which cold weather will make repairs virtually impossible. Otherwise, it would have to delay for another ten months the goal of increasing the pipeline's flow to its initial capacity of 1.2 million bbl. per day. That could cause financial problems for the state of Alaska; it has been counting on taxes from the pipeline, which are determined by the amount of oil actually moved, to finance 60% of its $1 billion current budget...
...economic troubles). On the other hand, if he senses defeat, he may stay out of the campaign and watch the opposition coalition fall apart-leaving the conservative religious parties in one group and the moderate, urban-oriented parties in another. Bhutto would then be in a strong position to rebuild his own party as a centrist coalition...
...reverend is not sure either. He eschews government aid, and is begging money from every friend made in 22 years of preaching, for he believes that "some way God will provide." The parishioners, who set up a three-member town board, have the skills to rebuild the place, he explains. A store and restaurant will raise capital. The refurbished Country Cafe is already open, complete with no-smoking signs, five paintings of Jesus, and delicious homemade pies. Martha Morris, 27, cleaning up heaps of reeking garbage at her new home, knows that her husband has no job and unemployment...