Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President pledges $41 million for immediate highway repair and $639 million in low-interest small-business loans. He boasts that when told by a highway engineer it would take a year to repair I-10, he asked, "What do we have to do to fix it in less time?" And he assures his hosts, "We have no intention, none, of letting this be a short-term thing." Pause. Soon, he says, he and Budget Director Leon Panetta will "go back to Washington and figure out how to pay for it." He is smiling, but this is obviously not a joke...
Though the extent of smoke-related damage tothe house remains unclear, fire officials haveestimated repair costs...
...blackened Lowell entryway has been closedoff by police lines until debris can be clearedand repairs made. According to Bossert, Universityofficials have already hired an independentcontractor to repair damages within the next fewdays...
Shortly after midnight on Dec. 18, just five days after the shuttle Endeavour returned from the daring mission to repair the Hubble telescope, scientists secretly put the refurbished instrument to its first test. They ordered the Hubble to point toward a bright star and beam its image to Earth. Anxiously, they crowded around a computer screen at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, as they waited for the picture to appear. The Endeavour astronauts had installed the telescope's corrective lenses and other equipment perfectly. But it wasn't certain that the devices would actually work...
...before-and-after pictures said it all: images of distant stars and galaxies that had been fogged and blurry were suddenly breathtakingly clear. Not only was nasa's Hubble repair mission an unqualified success (boosting the agency's chances of getting funding for its next big project, the space station), but astronomers now have a scientific tool of unprecedented power. Discoveries -- black holes, white dwarfs, new solar systems -- could pour in for years to come...