Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another of these seemingly lost causes. He works days at a beauty parlor, but his real life is gambling, chasing women. He goes to law school part-time, but it's really no big deal. When he's forced to give up law school to work in a home repair shop, he tells his future boss that it's all right, since he was only going to law school as a come-on to girls, anyway...
...owns jointly with Galeotti, in Forte dei Marmi, about three hours' drive from Milan. The decoration there is a kind of bucolic adaptation of the Milan digs, with the same aquatic excess: in this case, an Olympic-size pool. For sun, and the summers, Armani, Galeotti and pals repair to a Moorish-style domed house on the island of Pantelleria, 50 miles off the coast of Tunisia, where nature has supplied her own aquatic excess in the form of the Mediterranean...
...block from the fault, Joe Crevea, 70, and three of his friends on San Juan Bautista's volunteer fire department sit for hours on the "liars' bench" in front of the shoe-repair store. Old Joe guesses he has been in 100 quakes but never walks up to view the fault, fearing the fire alarm may scream while he is gone. His nonchalance is widely shared. "It is like living next to the Mississippi River," says a San Juan Bautista housewife...
Harvard should act more immediately to repair its tremendously strained relations with disgruntled residents. The NOMATEP coalition is embattled. It also owes, by some estimates, several thousand dollars for various legal defenses. But even those who are most resigned to MATEP's operation still bear severe resentment toward Harvard and its clumsy, inconsiderate and heavy-handed fight for MATEP...
...Electriclan in the family, You know, I was just talking to a woman who agreed to look at Basic Wiring because she recently was stuck when a big repair bill when her electrician brother was out of town...