Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boulez was not able to charm the older subscribers or assert himself as an exciting interpreter of the bread-and-butter repertory. The Philharmonic will be looking to Mehta to repair those weak spots. Only 26 when he took over the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1962, he still carries the nickname "Zubi Baby," but no one denies his musical credentials or his sex appeal. He does not dance on the podium like Leonard Bernstein, another predecessor in New York, but he does have an elegant presence...
...this month he fired those last 70 effective March 1. The Mayor insists that the department's The services - garbage collection, snow removal, street cleaning, road repair-can be performed more economically by contracting them out to private firms. He has already done so with garbage collection...
...Judge Carter turns down Browning on both issues, Patty's ordeal on the stand-during this trial at least -may be over. At week's end Bailey said he had not decided whether to call Patty for a redirect examination. "Redirect is to repair damage which has been done." The quote was pure Bailey: breezy, confident, and brushing aside the best efforts of Jim Browning during the long week of his own ordeal...
...second economy also provides a veritable army of shabashniki, or moonlighters, who will replace floorboards, mend roofs, fix plumbing and do any numher of services that would take months to obtain from state-managed building repair crews. Some of these repairmen are highly skilled engineers who quadruple their salaries, tax free, by after-hours work. Simes observes that everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers...
Since he quit making shoes--with the exception of a few sandals here and there--the focus of Felix's business has shifted to shoe repair; he also sells accessory leather good such as purses and belts on the side, as well as some rather unique footwear. For $5, you can buy a pair of bicentennial red-white-and-blue-saddle shoes, for example. The reason they go for so little, Felix explained, is that trying to get rid of them...