Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most workers, however, the main safety net is Government unemployment insurance, and there is a growing feeling that it contains holes that are sorely in need of repair. State insurance funds in New Jersey, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont and Rhode Island have already toppled into temporary bankruptcy and been forced to borrow a total of $299 million from the U.S. Treasury to keep going. The Labor Department reckons that as many as 30 other states may have to follow suit within the next two years. To keep their systems solvent, some states are now raising the tax on employers. That will...
...Thatcher's offer to Heath of a shadow cabinet post was taken as further evidence of her willingness to mute party conflicts. Calling at his Wilton Street house-still under repair after a pre-Christmas I.R.A. bomb blast-she renewed her invitation to have him join her as shadow Foreign Secretary. As she knew in advance that he would, he declined, stating a preference for a less conspicuous backbench perch-perhaps in the hope that if things go badly for Mrs. Thatcher he will be recalled to party leadership...
Under examination by defense attorney William P. Homans Jr. '41. Edelin said. "My memory is that the clocks were not functioning or may even have been removed for repair...
...quickly found; only three blocks away lived the shirt's owner, Joseph Kallinger, 38, a shoe repairman who, with his wife Elizabeth, 40, and their five children occupied a house in the working-class Kensington area of Philadelphia. On the bottom floor of the house was a shoe repair shop that Kallinger owned and operated. True, Kallinger's name was misspelled on the shirt. But that, the dry cleaner explained, was because his machine could not print more than eight letters across; dropping an / had been the solution, and he knew the shirt well...
...Truant. Kallinger took a kind of satisfaction in the notoriety that his family had received. He pinned the newspaper clippings detailing his family's woes to .the wall of his shoe repair shop, and he frequently pointed them out with pride to customers...