Word: repairable
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Since the Holyoke Center is crumbling away after only 15 years, and thousands are being expended to repair its bleak, Brutalist facade, it occurs to me that the University, in all its puissance, has a felicitious opportunity to join the M.B.T.A. in upgrading Harvard Square: why not construct a massive neo-Georgian veneer over the building to conceal forever the cold concrete and steel form that is so reminiscent of the very worst of post-war Britain. Dr. T.C. Bardwell
Nearly all student rooms are finished, except for minor jobs including some plaster repair and local electrical work, Quinn said...
...tissue, the egg will be unable to complete its journey. To examine the tubes, a doctor uses X rays or a telescope-like instrument called a laparoscope, which is inserted directly into the pelvic area through a small, abdominal incision. Delicate microsurgery, and, more recently, laser surgery, sometimes can repair the damage successfully. According to Beverly Freeman, executive director of Resolve, a national infertility-counseling organization, microsurgery can restore fertility in 70% of women with minor scarring around their tubes. But for those whose tubes are completely blocked, the chance of success ranges from 20% to zero. These women...
Reagan was able to smooth this over, but his would-be successors promise no such balancing act. One broad strain of pragmatists and moderates would consolidate Reagan's gains and repair his excesses. They would compromise to reduce the deficit, raising taxes if necessary. They would try harder to reach an arms-control agreement with the Soviets, sacrificing if necessary Reagan's proposed Star Wars weaponry. They would not try to legislate morality...
...this week. For tuition of around $300 a week, which includes housing and home-cooked meals at the rambling frame house that serves as the school's dormitory, students can spend from one to three weeks studying such subjects as oar-and paddlemaking, boat repair or canoe building. Says School Head Peter Anderheggen, 50, a former English professor at Norwalk (Conn.) Community College: "We're not going to turn an eager amateur into a master boatbuilder in three weeks. But I think we'll enable most of our graduates to build and repair their own boats...