Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land that has been shattered by religious factionalism. In no small measure, the meeting was occasioned by the reversal of fortunes that the Christians have recently suffered. With President Amin Gemayel's government on the brink of collapse, the religious leaders expressed fear that Christians would once again repair to their isolated enclaves and make national reconciliation even more difficult. Said former Prime Minister Amin Hafez, a Muslim: "After nine years of continuous conflict between the two sides, there are young Christian men who have never seen a Muslim...
...filled out a report two months ago to have them repair a cracked asbestos pipe, and when it was fixed, another crack in the same pipe was ignored," said Mark Skinner, a graduate student who works in the building, adding. "I'm struck by the general blase and negligent attitude of some of the people in EHS [Environmental Health and Safety--Harvard's office overseeing the removal...
...That case was a travesty of justice," he added. Although he said doctors had to "flip [this patient] through the abdomen to repair the damges," he added that "the surgeons didn't do anything wrong. In any other hospital, she would have been dead...
Building and Grounds workers began cleanup and repair yesterday morning and should finish the job by tonight said structural foreman James F. Caruso...
These daredevil exercises were a rehearsal for Challenger's April voyage, when its crew will try to recover and repair a $150 million scientific satellite called Solar Max (for Solar Maximum Mission), which was launched in February 1980, at the approaching peak of the solar cycle, to gather information on the effects of the sun's activities on the earth. The robot observatory has been crippled for the past three years because of a minor electrical problem. Flying to the satellite with his manned maneuvering unit (MMU), an astronaut will attach himself to the ailing bird. Then...