Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FRIEND OF MINE, an undergraduate I'll call Ralph, returned to Cambridge last week on an eventful HSA charter to find his suite destroyed by flooding and subsequent efforts at repair...
...intense beams are now used routinely in medicine to repair torn retinas, to remove cataracts and to burn away growths. They are also being used for welding and cutting steel. Lasers were used in Viet Nam to pinpoint bombing targets with a spot of light so that "smart bombs" equipped with infra-red sensors could seek them out. Since then, weapons researchers have been devising even more sophisticated uses for these potentially lethal beams of light...
Part of the answer undoubtedly is that the public, in the words of Economist Otto Eckstein, is still "shell-shocked" by the severity of the recession that ended last spring. People seem to recognize, accurately, that years will be required to repair the damage to the jolted economy. In addition, the consciences of people who are working have been assuaged by the knowledge that...
Under Trilateral guidelines, Third World countries would not be allowed to lure big Western firms away from their home base, thus avoiding what the commission vaguely terms as "retaliatory actions." Some members have suggested that these international rules might also help repair the damaged reputation of the multinationals...
...severe difficulty facing any program to bring inflation under control is the problem of momentum: last year's price increases tend to push up other prices today, regardless of what the general economy is doing. A prize example is auto insurance. Soaring auto-repair bills and medical costs during the last two years are causing auto insurers to raise premium rates to motorists-fast enough to help push up overall living costs more rapidly than some economists had expected...