Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week Queen Victoria's birthplace was less happily back in the headlines. In the House of Commons, a Labor M.P. suggested tartly that "at this time, when there are thousands of homeless in London," the government showed "deplorable priority sense" in spending $238,000 in public funds to repair the palace for its new occupants: Princess Margaret and her husband, Lord Snowdon, onetime Society Photographer Tony Armstrong-Jones...
Another factor which will influence the trustees toward accepting Pusey's offer is a recently completed engineering study which definitely confirms the possibility of replacing the MTA repair facilities at Bennett St. with facilities at other sites...
...that its House library has no room for expansion. Nor should the individual professor take too much time to worry about the administration of Student Employment. Nor should the engineer have lost sleep over the expensive lighting problem at the Leverett Towers or the unnecessary $600,000 repair job on the swampy athletic fields. Nor should anybody lose time from scholarship to find out what goes on in the Dining Hall Department...
...income and industrial production." For continued economic expansion, the President asked Congress to approve acts to retrain workers for new jobs, help train and place youths entering the labor market, and grant an 8% tax credit for businesses investing in new machinery and equipment. Noting that "the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining," he also asked Congress for standby authority to lower income tax rates in times of recession, speed up federal public works programs and strengthen the unemployment insurance system...
...world over turn in anger or supplication. When an African leader is murdered or a colonial power censured in the U.N., stones rain on U.S. embassies thousands of miles away. If floods sweep through villages in South Viet Nam or drought destroys a wheat crop in Yugoslavia, their governments repair for help almost automatically to the U.S. ambassador. This phenomenon is often exasperating. But in a sense it merely acknowledges the reality that the U.S. is a world power with a worldwide stake in peace and order...