Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contemporary gold Patek retails in the neighborhood of $3,950) but, as a rule, are much less interestingly styled. "I respect the old watches for design, form and their personality and character," says Unger. "They all have individuality, just like the people who choose them." They can also have repair problems. Unger, like many other dealers, gives a year's guarantee, but prospective owners may fairly be warned to line up a repair shop that knows how to do more than change a battery or install a new quartz movement. "Sometimes it's difficult to find the parts...
...This group primarily holds jobs in professions President Reagan has targeted for severe cutbacks--community organizers, social service workers, public employees in fields like housing and education, and many health care professionals. In addition, almost anyone who is involved in an "alternative" business like a food cooperative, a bicycle repair collective. Many of the people in these professions are young because it's difficult to raise a family on low wages that the federal government would like to make even lower. So some Puppies are aspiring Yuppies...
...patch damaged bones. "It is the outstanding transplant bone," says Dr. Harold Dick, chief of orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center. But traditionally, a simple bone graft taken from the fibula or from any of several bones in cadavers can be used to repair only a small area. In cases like Labollita's, where the gap was more than 3 in. long, ordinary bone grafts fail for lack of an adequate blood supply to nourish them. Amputation may then become necessary...
...Lindsey's notions was to concentrate on what he called oasis areas. Another was to spend about half his time working with repair crews in the streets of such areas, even in private yards. "I wanted the people in the projects to see the man in charge," he says. "When people asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'The first time, I'm cleaning it up for you. The second time, I'll be cleaning it up for the new tenant.' " Lindsey had remarkable authority not only to evict tenants while he renovated buildings in oasis areas but also...
Many new lines go well beyond the razor's edge. They contain everything from jojoba or wheat-germ oil to elastin or collagen, and most have no added fragrance. Lauder's top-shelf stuff includes Men's Skin Repair Complex ($35 for .87 oz.), which promises to produce younger-looking skin. Interface offers a beefy $44, four-product Work-Out Kit, including an eight-page illustrated brochure on when and how to apply such items as the Gripper tightening mask (twice a week) and PCA Day Moisturizer (outward strokes each morning and evening). A less costly label...