Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safe to go back in the water, marine biologists have charted some capricious changes in the feeding habits of sharks. In the past two years, sharks have repeatedly attacked the new 1-in. fiber-optic telephone cable off the Canary Islands. The marauding is expensive: an average cable repair is laborious and costs at least...
...every child can handle the richest offering of broad, humanistic learning. While he concedes that intellectual capacities vary, by his own metaphor, from half-pint to gallon containers, his approach holds that even for slow learners half a pint of Plato is better than half a pint of engine repair...
...year ago that bit of finagling might have gone unnoticed. For a time, beginning in the late '70s, the Havana government tolerated financial freewheeling on a modest scale, and Cubans grew accustomed to it. Moonlighting for extra income became commonplace among Cubans with skills in plumbing, shoe cobbling, auto repair and other personal services given short shrift by the centralized economy. Homebuilding turned into a lively cottage industry that helped ease the island nation's chronic housing shortage and rewarded the handy. Faring best of all were the country's farmers, who were allowed to sell items produced in excess...
Roll over, Karl Marx. Wake up, Friedrich Engels. Nearly 150 years after The Communist Manifesto and 70 years after the Russian Revolution, free enterprise is coming back to the Soviet Union. Businesses ranging from mom-and-pop shoe repair to interior decoration are being legalized under a new "individual labor" law that takes effect this Friday -- which happens, ironically, to be the international socialist holiday May Day. The measure makes it possible for the first time since Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s for individuals to make money legally according to a decidedly un-Marxist principle: from...
...Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, legalizes businesses in 29 fields, including plumbing, carpentry, dressmaking, auto repair, tutoring and toymaking. Specifically excluded are such obviously dangerous activities as making drugs and weapons. Also prohibited is the politically risky business of publishing. Workers cannot be hired for these private enterprises, thus the staffs are limited to family members...