Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long after Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, Saddam, in a clear effort to keep Tehran neutral, announced that he would release Iranian prisoners of war and give up Iranian territory still held from the Iran-Iraq war. The gulf conflict also has given Rafsanjani an opening to repair relations with Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states, which supported Iraq in its war with Iran. According to a senior Saudi official, Tehran, as a reward for its neutrality, is asking for loans and a lifting of the quota limiting Iranian participation in the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca...
...ranch when his horse shied from an insect and started bucking. "Rather than get thrown off, I jumped off," Seidman later told a reporter. "I had a better chance to land right." The horse dragged him some distance, though, and Seidman had to undergo two operations to repair a fractured pelvis and hip. He still uses a cane but hopes to get rid of it soon...
Bravest New Surgery Medical science, which can do remarkable things to repair the human body, took a giant step by daring to tinker with the original blueprint. In the first authorized use of gene therapy, a four-year-old girl with a rare and deadly enzyme deficiency received genetically engineered cells that could control her illness. So far, she is doing well, and scientists hope eventually to treat other illnesses the same...
...COLOREDS ONLY signs and muffled their racial prejudice under thick, soothing layers of courtesy. When he visits Wal- Mart, the discount chain store, there are professional "greeters" at the door. The auto dealer in nearby Monroe made a toll call to find out if he was satisfied with a repair. Strangers always wave at him as they drive by. "One man, a white man, he had a whole arm out of the car. That's normal, natural around here," he says...
...simple! No, there is something wrong with our educational philosophy, and that in turn, reflects something disjointed at the center of our culture. Maybe as a nation we are still too young (an unbroken chain of our bests writers from James Fenimore Cooper to James Baldwin had to repair to the "Old World" to survive...