Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deny him over the past two years: the countryside, where everyone has always agreed the war must ultimately be won or lost. Even in the unlikely event that he does nothing further, Giap has already wrought physical and psychological damage that will take months or perhaps years to repair. Undeniably, he now has the initiative throughout South Viet Nam. In that feat alone, he has, in one stunning month, created an entirely new and far more ominous war for the allies in South Viet...
They attacked 28 of South Viet Nam's 44 provincial capitals and occupied some, destroyed or damaged beyond repair more than 100 allied planes and helicopters. South Viet Nam's capital, which even in the worst days of the Indo-China war had never been hit so hard, was turned into a city besieged and sundered by house-to-house fighting. In Hué, the ancient imperial city of Viet Nam and the architectural and spiritual repository of Vietnamese history, the Communists seized large parts of the city?and only grudgingly yielded them block by block under heavy allied counterattacks...
Sunasco's troubles began almost as soon as the company was created in April 1966 by a merger of Beverly Hills-based Sunset International Petroleum with suburban Philadelphia's Atlas Credit Corp., a mortgage-banking, title-insurance and home-repair finance concern. First, a plan to float $14 million worth of long-term debentures went awry in the 1966 credit squeeze. Then the merger partners, Atlas' John L. Wolgin and Sunset's Morton Sterling, locked horns over how to raise money for the ailing realty side of their operation. Recalls Rozet: "There were four children...
...your broken heart needs repair...
Insurance companies say they are losing their savings, too. Despite the steep rise in premiums, the industry colors itself a bright red. In ten years, physicians' fees have gone up 39% and hospital costs 92%. Weekly factory wages have risen 42%, boosting lost-income settlements. Typical repair bills have climbed more than 50%. As a result, the average bodily-injury claim is up 31%, the average property-damage claim...