Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...floor has a recreation room with a television set, and if Harris becomes a star prisoner, she may some day watch TV and cook in her own cellblock. There is a school on the premises, though many of the courses may not interest a former headmistress: remedial English, auto repair, IBM keypunching, hairdressing. Bedford Hills is not an oppressively grim place to serve a sentence, but, as one guard says, "the hard thing is to be inside. You can make a prison almost a paradise, but if you can't leave, it remains a prison...
...small skunk found its way through the roof and into the air vent, the grate didn't hold out and the surprised skunk came tumbling onto the floor of the apartment, spraying the entire room in fright. The apartment and all the woman's possessions were ruined beyond repair, and the furry little varmint got away unscathed; but the luckless landlord was fined the maximum of $500 and the smell of justice lingered on long after...
Graves said the room where the fire occurred, which was used to paint and repair boats used by the crew teams, contained flammable liquids such as turpentine and paints, as well as several oars...
...contractor hired by the tenants at 27 Everett St. told a hearing of the city's rent control department that some of the painting and repair charges for work done on the building were "ridiculous...
...dispute began in the fall of 1979 when Harvard Real Estate (HRE) contracted for painting and window repair work in the apartment house, known as the Jarvis Building, which is located near the Law School...