Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors have come to two conclusions," announced Henry Kissinger, 58, to the throng of reporters at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. "One, that I do have a heart; second, that it is in need of repair." Kissinger's longtime friend and personal physician, W. Gerald Austen, chief of surgery at Massachusetts General, explained that the operation was to be a triple coronary bypass, in which a major vein from the patient's leg would be used to make detours around the clogged arteries leading to his heart. Kissinger handled the risks diplomatically: he quipped that...
...Laos, to Quang Tri is mostly a dirt track. The only construction projects that have been finished are those that enhance the Soviet image, like the ground satellite stations that allowed direct broadcast of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, or those that have some military application, like a ship-repair facility at Cam Ranh...
Gildea was referred to Dr. Arthur Boland, Harvard's head surgeon for athletics, who reconstructed her knee by inserting a staple to repair torn tissue. Despite intense pain, Gilder worked out three times a week her sophomore year to get back into the water...
...gift to the nation, his ancestral estate at Hyde Park, N.Y., had caught fire, the result of old, faulty wiring, which caused damage of $2 million to the 35-room house and $600,000 to furnishings. Few of the nearly 6,000 items of F.D.R. memorabilia were beyond repair. Custodians of the mansion raced in to retrieve items ranging from a Gilbert Stuart portrait of a Roosevelt forebear to F.D.R.'s mother's 3-ft. potted palm...
Mubarak is mindful, as was Sadat, that Egypt's economy was ruined by its wars with Israel. Without repudiating peace, he is expected to repair relations with the Arab states that broke with Sadat because of his overtures to Israel. One reason: Mubarak wants Arab investment in Egypt to help with his development plans. In similar fashion, he has tightened Cairo's military pact with the neighboring Sudan, begun diversifying Egypt's sources of weaponry with a new $1 billion contract with France for 20 Mirage 2000 fighters, and reasserted the country's fundamental commitment...