Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their marriage. About all that he seemed to be good at-and interested in-was cars, any kind of cars. In his wallet, Woods carried pictures of cars, not people. His family's 100-acre ranch is littered with 100 or more vehicles in various states of repair that he was working on, and he liked to bomb around in a renovated, shiny, scarlet hearse...
...Santa Fe is also the only railroad to have run a freight train-the Super C-at 80 m.p.h. "To do that," says Reed, "you have to maintain your track pretty darn well." Unlike many other railroads, the Santa Fe spends money heavily on keeping its roadbed in good repair even in bad times. Says Operations Vice President Larry Cena: "You can't just be doing maintenance work when business is good. That's when you need the plant." During the Russian wheat sales boom in 1973, the Santa Fe picked up much extra business from rival roads...
...103rd ballot in an earlier incarnation of the Garden. The impecunious city government has invested some $3.5 million in the convention, hoping for a return of more than $20 million in business for New York. Among other things, the city is counting on the convention to help repair New York's soiled image, in much the way that the immense and almost unexpectedly peaceful Fourth of July celebrations...
...advertisement in the Boston Gazette made it sound like a holiday: "All those jolly fellows who love their country and want to make their fortune at one stroke, to repair immediately to the Rendezvous at the head of Hancock's Wharf, where they will be received with a hearty welcome by a number of brave fellows there assembled and treated with that excellent liquor called grog ..." When a band of fortune hunters gathers in response to such a lure, these "brave fellows" are soon recruited into the growing forces of legalized buccaneers whom General Washington calls "our rascally privateersmen...
...urgent audit carried out by the eight-company pipeline consortium, which includes Exxon, Atlantic Richfield and British Petroleum, has revealed 3,955 "problem welds" in the pipeline, which is still only half completed. If Washington decides that the trouble is serious enough to require a major inspection and repair job, it could cost the oil companies as much as $60 million and prevent the opening of the vital project on schedule...