Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government would not necessarily create jobs, but would pay teenagers to help non-profit organizations or to repair and build public facilities, in groups modelled after the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps. Some proponents have suggested that the money would come out of cuts in the military, a tradeoff the forces might be willing to make in return for more and higher qualified 18-year-olds...
...document, which Harvard Real Estate (HRE) officials yesterday confirmed is a capital needs assessment of the Craigie Arms Apartments prepared in February 1981 for internal HRE use, lists only $156.000 of repair work for the 85-year-old structure...
Turk said the price differences for the roof repair demonstrate that the University is determined to renovate the building completely, regardless of cost or the effect on the market...
...seepage was traced to a ¾-in.-long crack in the engine's manifold, where hydrogen and oxygen come together under extremely high temperatures and pressures. That crack was the result of an inadequately hardened weld ordered up to repair some damage sustained during manufacture. But when the No. 1 engine was removed, its replacement also showed signs of leakage. This time oxygen was pouring out of a heat exchanger, a situation that might have triggered an explosion and fire...
...much as the river," insists Michael Keeler, 42, a lifetime resident who owns a four-bedroom ranch house. Says Gerald Johnson, 51: "If we are forced out, then we're forced out. But we will not volunteer to leave our home." Wayde Dake, 54, who owns an auto repair business now doing poorly, takes a fatalistic view. "I've been living here for 21 years and I'm not ill yet. And when you get to be 54, how much longer can you expect to live anyway...