Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over a five-year period, settled for half, and will get patrol boats, radar gear and a $26 million M-16 rifle plant. Taiwan has already begun to manufacture its own helicopters under a contract with Bell. U.S. advisers are also training the Nationalist Chinese to repair trucks, tanks, personnel carriers and other equipment damaged in Viet Nam, with the hope that Taiwan will eventually become an area resupply center...
...danger arises when a child senses that his mother protests too much; if she finds it wonderful to be black, why press the point? Besides, children acquire self-esteem not from words but from love expressed in actions. "No black-pride program," the psychiatrists write, "can repair the damage should we neglect our task of being good parents." That job requires controlling the parents' anti-black prejudice, which is strong in Negroes who are secretly ashamed of their blackness. Poussaint and Comer cite the case of a Government official's wife who preferred her light-skinned...
...apprentice themselves to welders to learn sculpture techniques. At Goucher College near Baltimore, the hit of 55 interim courses concocted by students and professors has the forbidding title "Chemistry and Physics Applied: Nuts and Bolts of Contemporary Society." The course is really a seminar on the workings and repair of everyday household appliances...
Bernard Bowie, a licensed electrician who had worked with McNeil for six months, disagreed with Coleman. "He [McNeil] frequently hung fixtures, bent and cut piping, pulled wiring, and helped repair motors," Bowie said. "He did everything an apprentice electrician does...
...less profitable compacts, minicars and fast-increasing imports (now 15% of the U.S. domestic market). Restive dealers grumbled over what they considered to be excessive factory control, reductions in their price markups, and the "dumping" of unwanted cars on their sales lots. Discontented customers demanded more reliability and easier repair-at a time when management found it increasingly hard to maintain quality output in their plants, in great part because of worker unrest. The eight-week strike against General Motors made a weak year even worse. In 1970 the U.S. is expected to produce 6,550,000 cars, down from...