Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine and offering it at a lower price, the compatibles have ushered in an era in which personal computers are commodities that are differentiated not by quality but by price. Indeed, true bargain hunters can even buy so-called clones, which are ultracheap compatibles that lack the service and repair guarantees that higher-priced units offer. In the past 18 months or so, many former customers of IBM have decided that they do not need to buy high-priced machines when more affordable compatibles or clones will suffice. Says Michael Geran, a computer-industry analyst for E.F. Hutton...
NASA was quick to respond, noting that the Soviet shuttle has yet to fly in space and touting U.S. "capabilities in retrieval, repair and construction in space, which are well beyond anything they have done." Others point to the U.S. lead in satellite technology and the feats of America's Viking Mars landers and Voyager planetary probes. "We tend to move in leaps and bounds, and they move incrementally," says Nancy Lubin of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. "The race hasn't ended...
...those very rare occasions when a Boeing jet crashes, a shudder not only of sympathy but of concern goes through Seattle. When a Japan Air Lines 747 went down last year, killing 520, the company sent a twelve-member team of investigators to the scene. Boeing later admitted that repair work it had once done on the plane's tail area had been faulty...
...Joseph Olander became president, seemingly an odd choice to continue building a college that had been under fire. A high school dropout and former street brawler, Olander taught himself to read from repair manuals and science fiction at a U.S. Air Force station on Canada's Baffin Island. Suddenly enchanted with education, he says, "I simply left the world of being a hoodlum" and worked his way through a number of degrees to a vice presidency at the University of Texas, El Paso; there he earned a dual reputation as an innovative manager and cheerful nut who liked to dress...
...while I do not know how to repair or retool these appliances, I am relatively proficient in operating them...