Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elderly woman, her apron stained with the morning's chores, is on her knees under the kitchen sink, banging away at a clogged pipe. "If this damned sink gets stopped up one more time..." she whispers angrily, thinking of her husband's disappointment when he returns from the repair shop to find that she has not yet prepared his usual big Sunday lunch. And she was going to try out a new pancake recipe...
Other business deductions claimed by Nixon but questioned by the committee ranged from $22.50 for cleaning a rug in Pat's bathroom at San Clemente to $432.84 to repair the estate's ice machine to $3,331.56 for depreciation of a $4,816.84 table that he bought for the Cabinet Room in the White House. Among the other disallowed items were $5,391.43 spent from the White House guest fund on food, beverages, decorations and unspecified rentals for a masked ball given by Tricia in 1969, and $23,576 spent from the fund to feed the First Family...
...rating but on the reasons for that rating. It does not reflect a dissatisfaction with one, or two, or a dozen specific issues. Rather it reflects an accumulative loss of faith that has eroded his credibility and moral authority; a loss that, in my judgment, is beyond repair...
...farfetched. Though modern medicine has yet to produce a real-life counterpart of television's Six Million Dollar Man* it has developed workable replacements for many important body parts, and is steadily moving toward the day when hospitals may well have to follow the lead of auto-repair shops and add spare parts departments to their facilities...
...Yasuto Itami, of Tokyo, recently designed and implanted a titanium and polyethylene thigh bone that can be precisely adjusted to fit the patient when it is installed. Other orthopedists are using cords of woven Dacron-which is chemically inert and thus will not trigger an immune response -to repair or replace damaged tendons. Dr. William Harrison Jr. of Tulsa, Okla., uses Dacron tubing to repair separated shoulders; the material forms a scaffolding or framework upon which new ligament can grow and is so effective that one 17-year-old patient went back to competitive wrestling eight weeks after treatment...