Word: repairable
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Britain's most hallowed sites are having similar problems. The dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London announced that visitors will have to pay a $3.25 entrance fee, after the church had to spend $150,000 to repair its rare black- and-gold marble floor. The surface had been damaged by salt and grit tracked in by tourists wearing sneakers. And forget about stopping at Westminster Abbey, even on a Sunday morning, for a few quiet moments of prayer. "Now it's like Harrods three days before Christmas," says cultural historian John Julius Norwich. "Salisbury Cathedral is just...
Negotiations wound up quickly last week after Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney announced that the U.S. was no longer interested in Clark because it would cost too much to repair the damage done by the volcano. The next day Manila agreed to a 10-year extension of the American lease on Subic Bay for an annual payment of $203 million, beginning...
...have lost their financial edge -- and then some. "The nonbank companies have smelled blood in the banking system, and they have moved in to gain market share," says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the Wall Street firm C.J. Lawrence. "To survive, the banks are going to have to restructure, repair their balance sheets and drop in number closer to 5,000 by the end of the decade." The banks that remain, the strong and progressive ones, will be the better...
...itself upon a sequence of nervy, life-or-death adventures to arrive at that denouement last week. Anissa's leukemia was diagnosed three years ago. In such cases, the patient usually dies within five years unless she receives a marrow transplant. Abe and Mary Ayala, who own a speedometer-repair business, began a nationwide search for a donor whose marrow would be a close match for Anissa's. The search, surrounded by much poignant publicity, failed...
...Atlanta-based Home Depot, the do-it-yourself industry's hottest star. Home Depot has grown from four stores with sales of $22 million in 1980 to 145 stores that rang up $3.8 billion last year. Margaret McKenna, who watches the $110 billion-a-year home-improvement and -repair business for Wall Street's Smith Barney, sees "a wide, wide margin in the industry between Home Depot and everybody else...