Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerged battered and bloody from her underground prison. Wearing an orange-and-black Halloween outfit, the 19-month-old child chirped "Trick or treat!" at a press conference in Midland Memorial Hospital. Bandages covered her forehead and right foot; doctors hope to begin skin grafts this week to repair the wounds. Midland celebrated the happy ending with a parade to honor the 400 people who took part in the rescue...
...take down illegal strike barricades immediately. She castigated the military mutineers who sparked the current crisis with their nearly successful August uprising. "They fought me, I fought back. Surrender would have been neater, but it is not in me to yield." As she issued rapid- fire orders for road repair, garbage collection, telephone-line maintenance and an end to the constant power brownouts that afflict the capital, her listeners interrupted the speech with at least 27 rounds of applause...
...Something must be done to repair the press conference because it is the principle means of communication between the President and the American people." Kalb said, "The only question is how to fix it. We are in the process right now of formulating our response to the problem...
...unmanned and manned programs compete for budget dollars, and so far the manned missions have been the big winners. But, says Sagdeyev, "99% of what man can do in space can be done by robots." The statement irritates his comrades at Soviet mission control. "This crew has done 100 repair jobs," scoffs Victor Blagov, the deputy flight director, arguing that humans are needed to deal with unanticipated situations. Snaps Stepan Bogodyazh of Glavkosmos, the Soviet equivalent of NASA: "You need people there to test the instruments. The cosmonaut is a researcher, and this is a laboratory...
Each of the more than 100 windows must be removed individually, cleaned and replaced. The lead tracery between the windows also needs repair...