Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the massacre, Sabra and Shatila were hives of cottage industry. The clang of metal against metal still rings from some of the small automobile repair shops, but behind the din there is a kind of lethargy. Women and children abound, but there are few males of working age. Many of the men were killed in the massacre. The male Palestinian fighters who survived left the country in the evacuation following the Beirut siege. Since then, the Lebanese army and security forces have conducted roundups of suspected P.L.O. members, criminals and others believed to be in Lebanon illegally. The roundups...
...They repair to an improvised breakfast table in the rear of the stage, and she leans over to kiss him. He leans over too, but only to get the newspaper, which he promptly picks up and reads, ignoring her completely. She ignores him too, at first, but after a while she pokes her shoe through his paper and they start to fight. "Now we are acting the estrangement," says MAN, and, a little later. "Now we are acting that our love has been deepened by the crisis...
...then-Fogg director Edward W. Forbes, as the museum's conservation department. Since then, the Center has expanded to become a national, non-profit cooperative. Each year, museums and private collectors throughout the country send more than 500 art works to the museum. The Center staff works to repair and clean works, and often checks the pieces for authenticity...
...Hudson's for decades acted as the model. Detroit citizen, providing sincere, accessible, non-discriminatory service and courtesy. In a city so fractured, the loss of this unique cohesive element is utterly painful; fanfare-filled tributes to the grand store would have only drawn attention to a situation beyond repair...
...their phone, the changeover is bewildering. Says Michael J. Friduss, an Illinois Bell executive: "We had a tremendous rush of people thinking that this was their last chance to get a new phone. Some customers thought we were going out of business, or that we were not going to repair their phones any more." That is not true-phone customers can in fact keep leasing their phones and getting repair service from their local Bell office-but the confusion is understandable. Although owning a phone has been possible since 1968, when the Federal Communications Commission started to unravel...