Word: repairable
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...other companies, which were too financially weak to match GM's 12.8% deal, scored much smaller gains. Ford, with a sales rise of 1.3%, offered rebates of 5% on the price of most models and a broad two-year warranty for maintenance and repair costs on all of its cars. Chrysler's warranty, which is good for five years or 50,000 miles, helped boost sales 4.8%. To promote these gimmicks, the companies launched costly advertising campaigns. It became almost impossible to watch television without hearing Telly (Kojak) Savalas hawk Fords or Chrysler's Iacocca growl...
...shelf for a long time," he says. "When you take them, you find out they're no good." On a collective level, Washington may find Latin Americans more difficult to deal with in the future, but on an individual level the damage is expected to be easier to repair...
...Goose Green, the British sent another wave of Sea Harriers against both targets, followed by a second solo Vulcan attack on the field at Port Stanley. The initial attacks had left it possible for smaller aircraft to fly from the fields; the British also wanted to inhibit Argentine repair work. During these raids the British admitted to suffering their first loss: a Sea Harrier was downed, its pilot killed...
...commitment to adhere to the Camp David agreement," he said in an hour-long speech to the People's Assembly on the day after the return of the Sinai. At the same time, Mubarak has left little doubt that he will gradually seek to repair the ties with the Arab world that were broken when his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, signed the treaty with Israel. Mubarak will probably not waste much time on Libya or on Syria, which vowed last week to "foil all attempts to welcome Egypt back into the Arab world." But the improvement of relations with...
Last October a section of veneer in the statue's left haunch collapsed. The Egyptians postponed consideration of Gauri's plan, formed seven committees to study the problem, and began to repair the Sphinx's left side. In the Egyptian view, the main threat to the Sphinx is not from humidity but from the higher water table...