Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reardon and several University planners launched a project last fall to repair the disintegrating structure. The University allocated $7 million for a complete renovation. Steel support beams were to be replaced. Acres of concrete slabs were to replace the weather-worn grandstands. A new press box was to be built...
...Kennedy's preferred site had been cleared by MBTA officials who spent some $53 million to transplant their repair and storage yards from where they had stood for about 50 years. But just when it appeared construction would soon be beginning, a group of Cambridge residents, worried that the library would bring more tourists, scholars, and cars into a already-congested Harvard Square, launched an all-out battle against the building...
...only catch is that customers lose the lifetime free repair warranties that come with rented Bell System phones. Thus, when a customer-owned telephone breaks after the expiration of the warranty, which can last anywhere from 30 to 90 days on units already installed, the hapless subscriber has little choice but to unplug the device and take it to his local telephone company office for servicing. If the telephone is one of the Bell System's early models that does not disconnect from the wall with a modular plug, the customer may have to pay an additional steep charge...
...citizen knew, Chernenko had been Andropov's main competitor for the succession. Now, in a deft and effective political gesture, the rival was moving to nominate the winner, thus symbolizing the need to close ranks. "Dear Comrades, all of us are obviously aware that it is extremely difficult to repair the loss inflicted on us by the death of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev," Chernenko said. "It is now twice, three times as important to conduct matters in the party collectively." Chernenko, a close protege of Brezhnev's, then proceeded to nominate Andropov, whom he described as "a selfless Communist" and, perhaps...
President Horner announced last week that repair work on the water-damaged Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (Q-RAC) will begin soon, and those sections not damaged will reopen by the end of the month...