Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...downsizing of the BIA's bureaucracy bothers Indian advocates far less than the cuts in money earmarked for tribal governments. Tribes' abilities to fight crime, provide sanitation, repair roads and administer dozens of other basic services would be endangered. The federal housing program that might have helped the Little Boy family would be cut 67%. The Agriculture Department's food program for Indians is scheduled to be folded into the food-stamp system, to the Indians' disadvantage. The advocates fear that the cuts will not just shatter the dreams of individual Native Americans like Little Boy but also cripple Washington...
...incorrect directory information that was impossible to change in time for the publication of the student phone book. Some students, lacking any working lines in their rooms, resorted to Centrex phones for on-campus calls. Unfortunately, a few of these were out of commission and in need of repair...
...fans. At the All-Star Game in Arlington, Texas, he worked his way from dugout to dugout in 100 [degree] F heat, signing every thing put in his way. In Baltimore this summer, he has been conducting after-the-game autograph sessions to make up for lost time and repair the wounds of the baseball strike...
...with a tire iron and then forced her to jump while dozens of people stood by cheering. Prosecutors now call these reports exaggerated, saying Word was not stripped or beaten and there were no cheering crowds. Nevertheless, Welch was charged with second-degree murder as city officials scrambled to repair De troit's tarnished image. Complained Wayne County prosecutor John O'Hair: "This fortifies [the] existing impression that there is a great deal of violence and lawlessness...
...true." There are other advantages too, he notes. "The human eyes are connected to the best portable computer there is [the brain]. And when things go wrong, a person can often fix them faster, more easily and more efficiently than a robot can. Look at the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission...