Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maugards rent their two-story, three-bedroom house, a former vicarage, for $100 a month. They have repaired its worst defects, but there is no central heating. Two space heaters fight a losing battle against the damp cold of a Norman winter. "The chimney is cracked, and the mayor won't repair anything," she says. "The septic tank smells terrible, and we're crowded together. My two smallest children sleep in the same bedroom as my husband and I." Their grounds are ample, however. The Maugards are able to eat their own chickens, turkeys and rabbits, as well...
...floodtide of outrage and indignation as ever-growing numbers of Nixon supporters abandoned him in Congress and the nation. Resignation rumors were spawned faster than the White House could deny them, and a mood of crisis gripped Washington. Nixon's moral authority and ability to govern seemed shattered beyond repair. By all the usual political omens, Nixon had lost the most audacious gamble in his political career and with it, in all likelihood, his chance of serving.out his term of office...
...charge of this transformation is Rudolf Leiding, 59, a onetime repair-shop manager who became chairman of Volkswagenwerk three years ago. Though 5,500 Beetles had continued rolling off the assembly lines each day until last week's shutdown, Leiding has been gradually shifting some of Volkswagen's eggs out of the Beetle basket. Volkswagen's subsidiary, Audi NSU Auto Union AG, formed in 1969, now offers medium-priced and expensive (up to $5,360) sedans, most notably the Audi 80, called the Fox in the U.S. Sales of these cars are rising faster than anything else...
...January 6, 1970, a group of tenants and students escorted Ebert on a "walking tour" of the neighborhood, and he said he agreed in principle with the tenants' demands for immediate repair of safety hazards and a rent cut-back. On January 18, over 40 students and faculty staged a "mill-in" in Ebert's vacant office to protest his failure to "act positively" on the demands. The next day, Ebert announced his refusal to intervene with the Corporation on behalf of the tenants...
...effort" that would guarantee "Harvard and its institutional affiliates...the expansion of facilities that they feel is necessary" and guarantee RTH "the security of shelter and stabilization and strengthening of the entire community that they feel is necessary." RTH called on Harvard to maintain the existing housing in good repair until the University could provide housing at affordable rents. The tenants specifically proposed that Harvard build this relocation housing on the 10-acre Convent site, with "RTH and/or their designee" as "sponsor and developer...