Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troops quite a few Hong Kong-made mugs, flags and ashtrays, they made far more money from the British goods they once peddled to Argentine tourists. The Standard Chartered Bank has opened an office on Ross Road, but the capital still has no barber shop, laundry or auto-repair garage...
Tenants argued that the board's decision to grant the removal permit should hinge on the issue of intentional owner neglect. The distressed building provision contains a section which does not allow removal permits in cases where the "owner neglected reasonable maintenance and repair of the building to escape from rent control...
...fishermen. Said one lawyer: "This is an incredible international can of worms. Not only are facts in dispute, but you're dealing with French, American, Spanish, Liberian, West German, and Bermudian entities." The judge found that Amoco had been negligent "with respect to the design, operation, maintenance, repair and crew training" of the tanker. He also blamed the ship's Spanish builder, Astilleros Españoles, for the design and construction of the faulty steering gear...
...ring at all? Or you get a busy signal when you know the line isn't busy? Or that the phones themselves, which never used to break down, now break down? And nobody will fix them, unless you dismantle them and send them-by mail!-to some repair shop in West Nowhere. And the prices keep going up: 25? or even 30?, soon, for a local call from a booth...
...disillusionment and the loss of ideals gave force to the nineteenth century novel of education, the resurfacing of suppressed, forgotten, or missunderstood ideals gives Golding's novel its kick. Barclay, realizing that his beliefs have been Christian and his acts have not, understands that his life is past human repair. Barclay himself cannot do anything about the person he has become...