Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recreational vehicle, often topped by a camper, that carries or tows snowmobiles, bikes, and dune buggies to the mountains, plains and deserts. A recent Ford survey shows that 57% of all light trucks are used partly for recreation. Indeed, Dodge is setting up a squad of traveling repair vans that will service disabled trucks that are Isolated in the nation's parks and other recreational areas. The auto companies, sensing the recreational trend, made the pickup truck more acceptable to suburban families by styling it more like a car. In twelve major markets, Ford reports, 14% of suburban families...
...resistor that should have prevented this. The Western Union men rushed to the rental office and found Dietrich holding only the glass top of the ticker. They asked where the rest of the machine was. He ad-libbed, said it had been knocked over and was being repaired. They offered to repair the machine themselves, and Dietrich had to retrieve it from the Hughes suite. Finally, Dietrich took a more direct tack, threatened to complain to state officials if Hughes could not get service-and the machine was quickly hooked up beside Hughes' bed. He lost some...
...first step toward repair, "Ms." sets out to expose the damage done to female egos by Freud and society. "Why Women Fear Success," an interview with Harvard's Martina Horner, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, explores women's desire to avoid success...
...line to shut down. Autos regularly roll off the line with slit upholstery, scratched paint, dented bodies, bent gearshift levers, cut ignition wires, and loose or missing bolts. In some cars, the trunk key is broken off right in the lock, thereby jamming it. The plant's repair lot has space for 2,000 autos, but often becomes too crowded to accept more. When that happens, as it did last week, the assembly line is stopped and workers are sent home payless...
Forty workers died and more than 100 others were injured when they were caught by air strikes as they attempted to repair huge bomb craters in the Dacca airport runway. India declared a temporary moratorium on air strikes late last week so that the runway could be repaired and 400 U.N. relief personnel and other foreigners could be flown out. It was repaired, but the Pakistanis changed their mind and refused to allow the U.N.'s evacuation aircraft to land at Dacca, leaving U.N. personnel trapped as potential hostages. The International Red Cross declared Dacca's Intercontinental Hotel and nearby...