Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roads, railways, bridges, dikes and buildings. With 17 years of hard-won development all but obliterated, Ershad said grimly, "It is not possible to survive like this. Whatever we have built, most of it is gone. It will take millions and millions of dollars, even billions, to repair the damage...
...back. Slaney gave birth to a daughter in 1986, and two weeks later was running six miles. That led to Achilles' heel damage, which required surgical repair. She emerged this spring, Achilles-healed, and at the U.S. trials she surprised experts by entering -- and winning -- both the 3,000- and 1,500-meter events. Now the prospect of a pair of gold medals in Seoul is not impossible...
While the Asian giants were plighting their renewed affections, top Soviet officials continued their efforts to repair the 25-year-old schism between Moscow and Beijing. Last week Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Rogachev spent five days in the Chinese capital trying to negotiate a compromise on the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Kampuchea, one of China's "three obstacles" to better relations with Moscow. But the talks ended without a settlement, dampening hopes for a 1988 Sino-Soviet summit meeting...
...ride lots, 750 sheltered bus stops and five new maintenance shops. Houston now boasts a highly efficient transit system that the American Public Transit Association ranks as the safest in the U.S. The buses are on schedule 98% of the time and are so dependable that they need repair only once every 11,000 miles, compared with the U.S. average of 4,000 miles. The city plans to expand its system of express lanes for buses, vans and car pools. Houston will have 70 miles of such lanes, more than any other U.S. city, when they are completed...
...Hertz, the largest U.S. auto-rental agency, pleaded guilty in federal court to overcharging customers and their insurance companies for repairs to cars that the motorists had damaged in collisions. The company agreed to pay a fine of $6.9 million and to make full restitution to some 100,000 victims, who overpaid at least $13.7 million from 1978 through mid-1985. According to the Government's probe, which was first disclosed in January, Hertz paid wholesale prices for auto repairs but charged customers full retail price without advising them of the markup. In other cases, Hertz prepared phony repair appraisals...