Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-olds in the room next to the Oval Office and that if we look into it we are "prying into private lives"? Has he learned anything? Will this happen again? Is it quite right for him to instruct the public to "turn away from the spectacle" and "repair the fabric of our national discourse"? Who caused this spectacle? Whose actions led to the most recent deep tearing of the fabric...
...rest of his presidency is bound to be a labor to repair the relationship with his followers. What time or energy will that leave for reaching the goals that followers are recruited for? Four months ago, I interviewed him about his goals. He said that many problems facing the world today cross national boundaries--environmental, health, drug, crime problems. "These factors argue for a vigorous, engaged America at this moment, which will not last forever, when we are the dominant power in the world," he said. "We should use this opportunity to put America at the center...
...more audacious and dangerous goal--and almost always succeeded. But after the four extraordinary years between 1968 and 1972, when the U.S. was sending crews to the moon, the agency retreated to the familiar backwaters of near Earth orbit. Aside from a few high notes like the Hubble-telescope repair mission and the horror of the Challenger explosion, human space travel became downright dull. And with the first components of the NASA-led International Space Station set to launch within months, things seemed likely to stay that way. For a public that had grown to expect great things from NASA...
...Americans--Vice President of this company, CEO of that firm. That's now. Flashback 15 years though, and they were probably as unexciting as her male classmates at Harvard. Sigh, the boys. Suddenly, she sits up at the rumble of a truck, realizing that she must show the garage repair person the ailing pulley...
...work. But there may be some consolation: The epic struggle against the flooding has drawn tens of millions of ordinary people away from their jobs and day-to-day concerns. Soldiers, farmers and city dwellers have thrown themselves into the battle to shore up dikes, save lives and repair the damage, creating scenes reminiscent of the idealistic propaganda images of the 1950s. The floods remind the Chinese that even in an everyone-for-themselves market economy they share a common destiny; a destiny which they are able to shape by acting as a community...