Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bags are saddle stitched by hand and finished off in melted beeswax in the workshops over its store on the Rue du Faubourg-St.-Honore. Each bag is made from scratch, one by one, by a team of two workers who stamp their insignia inside. If the bag needs repair, even 10 years after it is sold in Singapore or Seattle, it is shipped back to the original craftsmen...
Pitts outlines the next steps to her guides from Historic Cannelton, Inc. "It needs a roof, and you'll have to repair and remove those later excretions," she says, referring to an unsightly brick addition. "You have to shake the tree a bit. You just have to get as tenacious as the devil and generate publicity that this isn't a dead whale, that it's a useful community building...
...involved in the drug war -- are still mainly structured and equipped to repel foreign invaders, not homegrown terrorists. The air force bought fighter jets in 1987-88 but needs helicopters to search the rugged hillsides and dense jungles where drug laboratories are concealed. The navy spent $90 million to repair submarines instead of investing in light powerboats to chase traffickers who infest the country's rivers...
...enigma. Riche calls them the New Petulants because "they can often end up sounding like whiners." Their anxious indecision creates a kind of ominous fog around them. Yet those who take a more sanguine view see in today's young adults a sophistication, tolerance and candor that could help repair the excesses of rampant individualism. Here is a guide for understanding the puzzling twentysomething crowd...
...reverses the effects of aging is an overstatement. It's just one part of the equation." Other processes that may influence aging include cumulative tissue damage caused by destructive particles called free radicals that form within the body, and the inability of genetic material to repair itself completely after being harmed by everything from pollutants to cosmic rays...