Word: repairable
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...primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor of course was there any tension over who would control the remote. Today, however, a spouse is expected to be not only a co-provider and mate, but a co-parent, financial partner, romantic love object, best friend, fitness adviser, home repair-person and scintillating companion through the wasteland of Sunday afternoons. This is, rationally speaking, more than any one spouse can provide...
...A.N.C. has promised it will call for the termination of international economic sanctions. South Africa's painful 30-year isolation from the world community will finally come to an end. Anticipating that moment, A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela last week made an urgent plea for foreign firms to help repair the wreckage of the long antiapartheid struggle. "We need massive investment," he told a group of South African businessmen in Cape Town. Lifting sanctions, Mandela said, would be "an important psychological step" toward renewal...
...record high numbers of Black admits that make the Class of 1997 an accomplishment for the admissions office. Reeling from the Class of 1996, which had the lowest number of Black matriculants since 1969, the admissions office managed to repair its record with the Class of 1997, which has the highest number of Black students in the College's history...
More snafus may lie ahead. In December astronauts are scheduled to ride the shuttle into orbit to repair the star-crossed Hubble Space Telescope. Should the unprecedentedly complex mission go exactly as planned, NASA could regain some credibility. But if history is any guide, it probably won't. Space is a harsh and unforgiving place, where Murphy's Law is paramount. In fact, many of NASA's best public relations successes have come at the brink of failure. Engineers restored 70% of the Galileo probe's function after its main antenna failed to deploy; astronauts grabbed the Intelsat-6 satellite...
...enrolled at Santa Monica College to repair his undergraduate record and made the dean's list with a 3.7 GPA. He had no trouble holding down a 15-hour- a-week market-research job. He even got into an advanced scholar's program that guaranteed admission to UCLA...