Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forbids foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to sell to Cuba; Dutch and Swedish firms report that they too are being pressured by Washington to stop providing such items as catheters and sutures. A Canadian firm was even barred from selling Cuba a U.S.-made steel pin to repair a broken operating table. Medical journals are included under the embargo...
...attention to the affectionate reassurances that keep friendship alive. Though capable of a holy rage when it was called for -- for instance, when a famous figure of the day weaseled out of a book he had promised her for Doubleday -- it gave her enormous pleasure to keep friendships in repair...
...York City to argue for an end to the embargo. His previous entreaties were flatly rejected, but this time he will find growing support. Three of the five permanent members -- France, Russia and China -- want the trade bans eased. All three stand to win lucrative contracts to repair Iraq's infrastructure. France and Russia, among Saddam's major prewar trading partners, hope Baghdad could begin paying off its massive debts...
...trusted [Lennar] because it was the largestbuilder in Florida," said Susan Woolf, a Hampshirehomeowner who decided to move rather thanattempting to repair her home after the hurricane."It just goes to show you can't trust anyoneanymore...
...point is not necessarily that Michael Fay should be caned. In this case, an eye for an eye, or an egg for an egg, might be most appropriate; certainly nothing has been perpetrated that a little community service couldn't repair...