Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replaced, but WQED program director Sam Silverman conceded that the show was "not a rating, success." WNFE President Jay Iselin '56 reported that his viewership was from 100,000 to 200,000 in the Greater New York area, the same for his how to shows on gardening and home repair...
...concentrate on renting movies and other entertainment cassettes and are little disposed to stock or promote instructional tapes (which typically sell for $30 to $60). As a result, some companies are starting to market their how-to cassettes in retail outlets geared to specific audiences: placing tapes on home repair in hardware stores, for example...
...withdrawal of Israeli troops promises to help repair Israel's relations with Egypt, which has long called for an Israeli pullout. Earlier this month Israelis were allowed to participate in the Cairo Book Fair for the first time in two years. Last month the two countries resumed negotiations over disputed border areas after nearly two years of silence. But there was a failure to resolve the major issue of Taba, a 250-acre wedge of palmy beachfront on the eastern edge of the Sinai, which is claimed by both countries. Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sounded apprehensive last week...
...opposes the sale to any of the bidders because he thinks the asking price is too low. He wants instead to sell the company through a public stock offering. Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania agrees with that plan because it would preserve jobs in his state, where Conrail repair shops are located. Says Heinz: "The choice of Norfolk Southern is extremely controversial and may result in a legislative stalemate...
Conditions appeared to be ripe last week for the long-predicted breakup of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The pressure of OPEC's three-year struggle to prop up global oil prices seemed, at long last, to have fractured the group beyond repair. During the three-day emergency meeting in Geneva, OPEC's ministers let loose an unprecedented public display of insults, accusations and stubbornness. Yet once again the blowup failed to happen, and the group reached some broad agreements. Nonetheless, those accords showed convincingly that OPEC has lost its ability to dictate world oil prices...