Word: repairable
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HSTO is essentially a liaison for New England Telephone. It controls the wires which run from its offices to student dorms. It determines telephone rates, controls Personal Access Codes (PAC), bills students and screens repair calls for New England Telephone...
Besides determining rates, HSTO's other major tasks are to bill students and to field repair calls...
...from $8 billion to $1.7 billion today, change would not be coming at all. Beginning in July, Castro announced steps to open up the economy. He legalized the use of the dollar, granted more autonomy to farmers, and allowed people in more than 135 small-time occupations, from shoe repair to haircutting, to work for themselves. "For 30 years we did not do anything like this," Fidel told a group of 175 Americans visiting Cuba in violation of the 32-year U.S. embargo, "but the realities of today's life have forced us to do this. It is painful...
...moon landings. Though NASA is trying to downplay it as a "scheduled maintenance flight," the goal is anything but routine: the crew is supposed to fix the faulty Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.6 billion disappointment that has kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago. The repair work will require that alternating pairs of astronauts go on five space walks of six hours each, which would break the NASA record of four such excursions on a mission. Since the task will be something like weaving baskets while wearing boxing gloves in a weightless environment, success...
Even the Hubble repair mission has already had glitches. Last week ground technicians discovered a faulty sensor in a control device on Endeavour's right wing. After mulling over the problem for a day, NASA officials decided not to delay the mission, because three other backup sensors could do the job of the malfunctioning one. Of course, given the shuttle's recent record, a Dec. 1 launch is not exactly a safe...