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...Welcome to our midday family meal," Lori says, as she sits in her office at Rudivani Precision Motorworks, the car-repair shop she manages in Webster Groves. The two mechanics are eating take-out sandwiches; Lori is eating a hamburger and returning phone calls in her little office. Propped up in the corner is a framed poster called 21 Suggestions for Success. The top four: "Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy, and that's worthy of your time and talent. Give people more than they expect...
...Harvard Lampoon's costly project to repair its copper roof structure should be completed by the end of next week, said Joseph F. Hickey, maintenance official at the Lampoon castle...
...officials admit the show of pique was Washington's fault: an army officer misread an order to prepare to deploy as the final go-ahead, prompting the Pentagon to announce the troops were going before Perry could seek permission from Kuwait. U.S. diplomats scrambled to repair the damage by confessing their "screw-up" to Kuwait's Emir, and a deployment that Kuwait had in fact urged on Washington quickly went ahead...
...other night my wife said that some of those servicemen in the Maytag commercials who are always complaining about not having enough to do should be retrained to repair television sets. I explained to my wife that the Maytag commercials aren't meant to be taken literally, that Maytag repairmen actually do have enough to do, and that the commercials are simply employing a small conceit as a way of calling attention to a claim that Maytag appliances require less servicing than competing brands...
...system breaks, they offer extensive on-site and drop-in service; it's much easier to carry your broken Power Book back to TPC than to ship it home to California. If you're a computer novice, TPC's higher prices may be worth the added comfort of having repair and service handled here in Cambridge...