Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest complaint is that there's no money to repair equipment," McLean said. "I ask the department for financial help every fall. We've been asked to submit our budget...nothing happens...
...same time, manpower shortages caused by the mobilization have brought a drastic decline in public services. Mail deliveries have slowed; telephone service, disrupted by unusually heavy winter rains, is erratic. Most people have found it impossible even to get the telephone repair number to answer...
Newspapers have carried stories of customers searching for the "secret" location of the utility's repair headquarters...
This problem still exists under rent control. But at least tenants need not be forced to pay outrageous rents for substandard conditions. Substantial rent reductions for substandard housing could force some landlords to make repairs rather than lose their buildings. Rent control can also improve conditions by making it easier for tenants to use the new state "right to repair law," which allows tenants to spend rent money on repairs. And by squeezing out speculators who demand higher profits than the law allows, rent control can remove a significant blighting influence from the community...
...stripping has wreaked havoc on whole areas. In response to public outrage over the scarred and torn land. Congress seems to be close to passing a bill that would make strippers repair the ravaged earth after mining. Such reclamation works well in the rolling, well-watered countryside of Ohio and Pennsylvania, but is difficult in the arid West, and virtually impossible on the steep slopes of West Virginia and Kentucky. In the long run, however, only 5% of the U.S.'s immense reserves are strippable. The rest must be mined by men working in deep shafts...