Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures show a 14% rise. In New York City, Alexander's recently posted an 18% profit increase, aided by such promotions as "pre-inflation sales" that offered men's suits for $29. Used-car sales are also brisk, mainly for models costing less than $1,000. Auto-repair volume is up 10% from last year, partly because drivers are trying to nurse one more year from their old models...
Campus disorder is expensive. Stanford University, for one, has begun totting up the dollar costs of its violent spring. Out-of-pocket expenses have come to $240,000, including $100,000 for broken windows and other property damage. Overtime work by repair crews, campus police, administrators and others brings the six-week total to $580,000. At some campuses, even bigger figures come even faster: last week fire bombs at California's Fresno State College destroyed a computer center valued at close...
...seat been vacant for so long. Not since the fight over Louis Brandeis in 1916 has a court nomination stirred up so destructive a dispute as that produced by the unsuccessful Carswell and Haynsworth nominations. With an almost palpable sense of relief, the Senate is set to begin the repair process this week by consenting - cheerfully - to the appointment of Federal Circuit Judge Harry Blackmun to the place vacated by Abe Fortas' forced resig nation twelve months...
...Case & Krone, is "What can I stop buying?" Case's agency, for instance, is trying to broaden the appeal of Angostura Bitters beyond that of a cocktail flavoring and increase its use as a seasoner for low-cost meals. The campaign offers suggestions on "how to repair TV dinners" and "how to make 89? chuck taste like $1.29 sirloin...
...school has had windows out of it ever since I went to it fifteen years ago. When they sent the white kids to it a couple of weeks ago, they approved funds to repair windows, broaden out the streets, put in street lights, slow signs, emergency care, plowed up the football field...