Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether through human error or mechanical failure, neither of those safety measures worked last week. The plant had been temporarily closed for maintenance two weeks before the accident, and both the methyl isocyanate storage tanks and the pipes connecting them were under repair. According to Madanlal Ranji, president of the plant's labor union, the scrubber was also in the process of being fixed. To make matters worse, a critical panel in the control room had been removed, perhaps as part of the maintenance program, thus preventing the leak from showing up on monitors...
...theory, even such a cost is quite feasible in a trillion-dollar economy. For the Federal Government, the gigantic bill would represent only about 3% of the budget deficit, the price of three Trident submarines, or about half of what is spent annually on bridge and highway repair. And until fairly recently, the ideal of good medical care for every citizen was proclaimed to be a top national priority. "The fulfillment of our national purpose," Congress rather grandly declared in 1966, "depends on promoting and assuring the highest level of health attainable for every person...
...such a policy change does come about, the University will certainly have a big task ahead of it. Some companies are named Harvard coincidentally. Others, like Harvard Dry Cleaners, Harvard Car Wash. Harvard Auto and Truck Repair, Harvard Refuse and even the Harvard. Family Restaurant--all in Cleveland--seem to take their name from their close proximity to scores of streets, roads and avenues around America that are also named Harvard...
...project was tight. From the moment the green light was given, engineers and others on the project began to put in 90-hour work weeks-figuring, designing, double-checking and, as it turned out, sometimes starting over. At the same time, NASA was preparing for another rescue, the repair in space of the Solar Maximum Mission scientific satellite damaged in 1980. The space agency set out to fix the sophisticated $75 million instrument on the eleventh shuttle flight last April. But Astronaut George Nelson was unable to grasp the Solar Max with a device mounted on the arms...
Baker joked that he was the Senate's janitor, opening up the place every morning and keeping the political plumbing in good repair. But as the first Republican majority leader since 1953, he deftly walked the line between passive overseer and overbearing boss, nudging consensus into shape when he could, urging the White House to change legislative tacks when he could not. The institution is balky, filled with large egos and powerful fiefdoms. The majority leader has to wheedle and plead, wheel and deal, yet maintain an almost presidential gravity...