Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read a poster on the wall of the Bicycle Repair Collective, as it was called 19 years back in its hippy haven days: people then went to the Cambridge bike shop to learn from socialist/feminists how to fix their own bikes, or to have them repaired at reasonable cost...
...Broadway is still a teaching facility. While the less mechanically-motivated can pay to have their bikes taken care of, bikers who dare can either come in and rent space and time to fix their vehicles, or they can learn how to repair their bikes themselves...
Sadly, the amendment died twice in the Foreign Relations Committee in the last three years. No one has been bold enough to reintroduce the measure this year, and there have been no new proposals to repair the flaws of the War Powers Resolution. In the wake of Bush's triumph in the Gulf, congressional demand for a greater check on the president may be politically infeasible...
...Bush's postponement of a spring visit to Tokyo while the President and Secretary of State James Baker undertook a round of meetings with leaders from nations that contributed militarily to the victorious coalition. Worried about U.S. ill-feeling, Tokyo hurriedly arranged this week's Kaifu-Bush meeting to repair the damage...
...with the Iraqis; and Gnehm who has insisted that the government's ministers cease promising the imminent return of services, something they are weeks if not months away from accomplishing. In a particularly significant triumph shortly before he welcomed home Kuwait's Emir last Thursday, Gnehm persuaded the electrical-repair teams to begin toiling around the clock; previously, they were putting in eight-hour days. "Imagine," says another Western diplomat, "Kuwait is falling apart, and something that obvious has to be counted as a diplomatic coup...