Word: repairable
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...that was once a top priority for Dick Cheney is now limping along; some Democrats are trying to break it up to pass the salvageable parts, like measures aimed at preventing another blackout. The one major bill that has moved through both houses lately--a measure to expand and repair the nation's highways--is in trouble with the President himself. He's called both the House and Senate versions too expensive...
...assault rifles; destroyed one tank and disabled another; and fled before the Americans could return fire. On Saturday coalition forces unexpectedly announced that the main highways leading north and south from Baghdad had been closed indefinitely to civilian traffic. The official reason given was repair work, but a coalition military source said the roads were "very dangerous and under intense enemy pressure...
...beings," Hwang said. What they do want to produce--and, in fact, did--is embryonic stem cells, the biological blank slates that develop into all the body's tissues. Thanks to stem-cell technology, people could become their own tissue donors with pristine, unrejectable cells at the ready to repair damage done by, say, Alzheimer's disease or spinal-cord injury. Stem-cell research in the U.S. has been hamstrung since the Bush Administration's 2001 decision restricting federal funding for the work to existing cell lines. In South Korea, which forbids human cloning only for reproductive purposes, the game...
...able to operate Navy radio transmitting and receiving equipment, making adjustments for frequencies, be able to adjust, repair and calibrate radio direction finders and sound equipment, and to send and receive on all frequencies used by the Navy. Know how to encipher and decipher Navy messages, how to maintain and care for batteries used with radio equipment and know the functions and the operation of all radio equipment as related to radio communications. Understand the principles of A. C. and D. C. motors and generators, of power transformers, of radio transmitters and receivers, radio direction finders, and the principles...
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