Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second day in this country, in 1963, he visited Harvard Square and told himself that one day he would own a show repair store here. he liked being around "young people, smart people, all sorts of kinds of people, poor people, rich people, all the happy people. "He spoke only Greek, worked three jobs simultaneously, saved money. On Saturday and Sunday nights he worked in Harvard Square's Felix shoe Repair, then located in the Massachusetts Avenue lot occupied toddy by Gnomon Copy. In 1969 Christos bought Felix Shoe Repair from the grandson of the original owner...
...removed laparoscopically. Other common operations, from hysterectomies to hernias, seem likely to follow suit. At Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago, a trauma team has begun using the technology to diagnose injuries from knife wounds and automobile crashes. Soon the team expects to move from diagnosis to laparoscopic repair of tears to the diaphragm and abdominal wall. Eventually, if doctors become convinced that operations performed in this manner do not inadvertently spread malignant cells, this kinder, gentler surgery will touch the lives of an even larger group of people: cancer patients...
...apartments are in bad repair, andthe questions are whether there was a firehazard," said Booth...
...name Tikkun comes from the Hebrew, meaning to heal, repair and transform the world. Given that name, it's not hard to figure out that this magazine is a liberal/progressive alternative to Commentary and its neoconservative readership...
Drug companies are marshaling their forces to oppose increased government oversight. Those that stand accused are also conducting somewhat belated counteroffensives to limit the legal damage and repair their frayed reputations. Dow Corning, which has been widely criticized for reacting insensitively to the implant debacle, announced that it has retained former Attorney General Griffin Bell to lead an independent investigation into its development and marketing of implants. The company has also agreed to make public 90 additional documents and to ensure that it provides accurate information to the thousands of women calling the company for advice...