Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackie Jung, Bell Service public relations manager, said the computer damage occurred at 3:30 p.m. and was repaired within six minutes After the repair, however, a glut of outgoing phone calls overloaded the computer's switchboard and prevented the phone company from restoring full service for an hour and a half...
...steering wheel is gone, the body has huge dents patched over with hasty repair jobs, and no one knows how much gas remains in the tank...
...students cannot, or will not, learn. The shortcomings of the schools have been documented by lower Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, a national high school dropout rate of some 25%, the shrinking elite of students taking calculus and physics, the proliferation of remedial courses in colleges and in businesses to repair the damage. One study in the '70s found that 30% of 18-year-olds (47% of black youths) were functionally illiterate, unable to read or follow a set of simple directions...
Last week, it looked as though many Europeans were far ahead of their own leaders in understanding that it was more important to make the "Marshall approach" work than to keep Germany down. Said Henri-Albert Joinville, 46, a road repair man: "The Marshall plan was quite simple when it started and now the politicians are trying to make it complicated. It is still simple for me. We are in trouble. If we don't get help, there may be anarchy in France. Now let's get ahead...
...exercise area. Horner commissioned an extensive study of the problems plaguing the $2.4 million facility which was built in 1978, and kept the Q-RAC closed through the fall. Weather problems delayed the study for several weeks, but officials finally determined in early November that the University should repair the facility on a gradual plan, until refurbishing is completed next fall...