Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the years they would have ferocious fights, and Allen would, after a Hodgkin's disease scare, quit the company and become estranged. But Gates worked hard to repair the relationship and eventually lured Allen, who is now one of the country's biggest high-tech venture-capital investors (and owner of the Portland Trail Blazers), back onto the Microsoft board. "We like to talk about how the fantasies we had as kids actually came true," Gates says. Now, facing their old classroom building at Lakeside is the modern brick Allen/Gates Science Center. (Gates lost the coin toss...
...think it's clear that the age of the vehicle doesn't determine the safety. Safety comes from maintenance and repair," said Edward J. Lang, who represents a group of more than 50 Cambridge cab drivers who objected to the regulation...
...variety of activities and businesses. (The trend was initially detected by such different observers as Harvard professor Robert Putnam, who called it bowling alone, and Faith Popcorn, who called it cocooning.) Book publishing was done at home, as well as graphic design, data analysis, all forms of consulting and repair services. The necessity of intermediaries was further removed in such areas as shopping, banking and real estate. Independent rock-'n'-roll record producers competed from their home offices with big-label corporations. People were encouraged to distance themselves from other people; the First National Bank in Chicago charged customers...
...still learning. A couple of years later she appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, unleashed a flurry of four-letter words and spent the next few months trying to repair the damage. Meanwhile, her bumpy movie career--which has wavered between big roles in bad films (Shanghai Surprise) and smaller parts in an occasional decent one (A League of Their Own)--got even bumpier. In 1993 she starred in Body of Evidence, a steamy courtroom drama that bombed with critics and audiences. She complains that the script was changed so that her character, a sex-obsessed vixen on trial...
Next year, Sears' 17,000 service vans will begin offering 24-hour on-call repair service for any brand of appliance, whether or not Sears sold it. That way, Martinez hopes to transform a $3 billion repair and improvement business built on Sears' customer base into at least a $10 billion one within three years...