Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen by outsiders as a sign of the area's deterioration. Police charged a neighborhood handyman, Joseph D'Amico, 48, with the slaying. The alleged cause of the killing: a quarrel over botched repair work he had done on Treglia's sidewalk. > Park Slope was a well-to-do neighborhood of elegant three-story brownstone mansions until their owners began moving to the suburbs. The area's slow decline was partly arrested in the 1960s when middle-class professionals began renovating many...
...operating room so fast they hardly realize that they have been under the knife. Surgical factories? Not quite. In the past few years, more than 70 such private, one-day surgical centers have opened in the U.S. Undertaking minor surgery of all kinds-from face lifts to vasectomies to repair of hernias-the clinics discharge patients almost as soon as they shake off their postoperative grogginess. The only radical surgery performed is on medical bills. By never keeping anyone overnight, they are able to undercut typical hospital costs for operations by as much...
After hearing our friends' woes of rising mortgage payments, taxes, insurance and repair costs, we wonder if the prestige of owning one's home is worth...
...manifestly based on Kim Philby, a principal strategist of British intelligence who defected to Russia in 1963 after two decades of spying for the Soviets. Britain's real Secret Service had to be rebuilt after the Philby scandal; the fictional one is equally shattered and in need of repair in the post-Haydon...
...third world nations. Not only do the Arab sheiks have the foreign exchange which the West desperately needs, they also have the economic power to demand choice weaponry, like F-14 fighter jets and computer-guided missiles. Of course, they often burden themselves with equipment they cannot operate, repair or even find a use for. But Colonel Gaddafi of Libya still buys tanks by the thousands...