Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversy it has aroused, the accord offers benefits to both countries -- if it holds up. For Sri Lanka, peace would bring stability and a return to more prosperous times. For India, success would promote the country's coveted image as a regional superpower and repair Gandhi's battered reputation. Said U.S. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman: "We applaud the statesmanlike efforts and perseverance of these courageous leaders in achieving this accord...
...economic measures appear to have more enthusiastic backing among white-collar workers. "We've just become self-sufficient and have been promised pay increases," says a tall, well-dressed woman who works for a shoe-repair shop. "We'll be expected to do more for our money, of course, but we're all for that. I'm saving for the first time in my life." A middle-aged administrator in a Moscow carpet factory agrees that there has been visible change under Gorbachev. "People think what they're doing is more worthwhile," he says. "Russians were never given the chance...
...justifying tactical retreats and temporary accommodations when these suited Soviet aims, only to return to the global struggle when conditions ripened. "The No. 1 question," says James Schlesinger, "is whether Gorbachev's new thinking is intended simply to achieve a respite, a pause, so that the Soviets can repair their economy; then in ten or 15 years go back to the ideological conflict...
...first boom time for rule writers came during the Great Depression of the 1930s. At the urging of President Franklin Roosevelt, Congress commissioned ranks of regulators to repair the economic damage and prevent its recurrence by monitoring banks, stockbrokers and other businesses. Among the new watchdog agencies were the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (1933), the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934) and the National Labor Relations Board (1935). When regulatory legislation was first challenged, a conservative Supreme Court thought the Constitution did not provide the authority for such federal meddling, but Roosevelt's appointment of more liberal members...
What is it about fiber-optic cable? Marine biologists accompanying the repair teams have tried to find out. Along the way, they have learned that sharks generally do not feed below 3,000 ft., thus making it unnecessary to protect cable below that depth. They have also discovered previously unknown species of fish. But they still do not know why the new cable is so appealing. The favored theory: sharks attack the lines after detecting faint electric fields that trigger a feeding reflex. "Who knows why they are attracted to it?" muses Gary Nelson, chief of ichthyology at the American...