Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hedvig, for Hjalmer, and for the Ekdal family as a whole. Into this tranquil little world blunders the well-meaning but clumsy idealist Gregers, whose efforts to clear away the "swamp gases" of deceit and in its place erect a "foundation of truth" only end in destroying it beyond repair...
This is a story about how the Air Force pushed the principle of accountability to a tragic extreme. To make up for an earlier, fatal misdeed left initially unpunished, the Air Force court-martialed a pair of mechanics who had made what appeared to be a good repair on a piece of equipment that the Air Force admitted was poorly designed. Instead of acknowledging that it had been warned about the problem, the Air Force pursued the senior mechanic with such zeal that he came to believe suicide was his only escape...
Technical Sergeant Thomas Mueller spent 15 min. under the F-15's sleek skin on May 17, 1995, finishing a repair job left undone by others. Mueller, Technical Sergeant William Campbell and a third man rebolted a pair of flight-control rods to two hookups that relayed the pilot's tug on his control stick to the movable flaps that control the plane's flight. Mueller, a highly regarded 17-year Air Force mechanic, double-checked the work with a mirror and flashlight...
...orangutans" by co-workers and being passed over for promotions? In short, why are so many whites ready to declare that the war against racism has been won when fresh evidence that it is alive and well pops up all the time? Even as Texaco was scrambling to repair its image last week, Avis was sued for refusing to serve blacks in North and South Carolina...
RECOVERING. SOPHIA ROSE STALLONE, 12-week-old daughter of actor Sylvester Stallone and girlfriend Jennifer Flavin; after surgery to repair a hole in her heart; in Los Angeles...