Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Further reductions in joblessness are most certainly needed if the economy is to repair the ravages of last year's recession. As Democrats rushed to point out, even a 9.5% unemployment rate is higher than any that the U.S. suffered between 1941 and 1982. Partly because of high unemployment, the Census Bureau reported last week, the number of Americans living in poverty (now officially defined as an annual cash income of $9,862 or less for a family of four) rose last year to 34.4 million, or 15% of the total U.S. population. That was a full percentage point...
...characterize U.S.-Soviet relations." (The sadistic sheriff in Cool Hand Luke was more succinct: pointing to the rebellious prisoner he had just brutalized, he explained, "What we've got here is failure to communicate.") It is the broken-telephone theory of international conflict, and it suggests a solution: repair service by the expert "facilitator," the Harvard negotiations professor. Hence the vogue for peace academies, the mania for mediators, the belief that the world's conundrums would yield to the right intermediary, the right presidential envoy, the right socialist international delegation. Yet Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Iran...
...Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation after complaints that when the brakes were applied even moderately, the rear wheels tended to lock and throw the car into a skid. After much prodding, GM announced a recall of 47,371 X-cars some 20 months later. But it did not repair the brake defect successfully. Last January N.H.T.S.A. declared that about 320,000 of the cars were unsafe. In February 1983, GM ordered a second recall of 240,000 cars. N.H.T.S.A. still considered the action inadequate. The Government charges that the brake defect has caused 71 injuries and 15 deaths...
...staff, who nevertheless are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks. Never a flush organization, NPR can withstand some painful fiscal austerity, but the blows this crisis have dealt to the energy and enthusiasm that made the station what it has become, will be harder to repair. One former employee describes "a sense of real doom that NPR will never be the same again. That an era is over." The overwhelming listener support pledged in the fundraiser delivered a badly needed shot in the arm to the staff, but many are still disillusioned and angered by the events of the past...
...capable of producing dopamine, a vital brain chemical lacking in the afflicted rats and in Parkinson's patients. Such techniques used with humans, some researchers believe, may lead to a cure for Parkinson's disease within five to ten years. Eventually, it may also become possible to repair the spinal cords of paraplegics and regenerate parts of the extensively damaged brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea, multiple sclerosis and other degenerative disorders...