Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to go in the hospital, to take whatever tests can be taken.' Quite a smart woman. [Looks up to make sure you realize this.] And the doctor said to her, it's gall bladder, and we'll just operate. We take it out. We'll repair it. God knows what. [The sentences sound increasingly like Yiddish-English.] "So ... [long pause] she was operated on [by a different doctor]. My father and I were there. And the doctor came down...
While Leahy searches for energy reductions and Coburn and Gerrity scramble for viable repair plans, more extensive work is taking place across the Charles. This Monday, the Business School will begin several major renovation programs. Most notable is what Paul H. Lapointe, assistant dean of the B-School, calls a "complete renovation and mechanical overhaul" of Chase Hall, a B-School dorm, at a cost of $5.6 million--almost half of what is set aside for the entire undergraduate House system from the Harvard Campaign. The changes in Chase follow previous alteration projects in McCulloch Hall in 1978 ($3.5 million...
...that the Houses and other buildings are in disrepair, College administrators have nevertheless been limited in what they can do. Faced with a College-wide budgetary squeeze and pressure to keep annual tuition as low as possible, administrators have deferred maintainance on the Houses and buildings, doing only essential repair work. "We know we're not putting enough work into buildings, but the neglect isn't so much that any building is going to fall down," Melissa D. Gerrity, associate dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, explains...
...waits. Waits for the findings of Steffen and Fogarty. Waits for the initiatives of Coburn and Fox. And waits for money. No one knows for sure what advice will come from the study which "did everything but take Winthrop apart brick from brick," according to Davis, or what new repair work energy-slashing measures and $12 million will allow. But Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, master of South House and Oliver Professor of Hygiene, sees the new study presenting "both a challenge and an opportunity to upgrade the place, to make it more liveable and economical in the long...
...were lower than comparable privately owned buildings and that--perhaps--there was money to be made, or at least not to be lost in such large quantities. Ergo, Harvard Real Estate. Formed in 1978, the wholly owned subsidiary of the University has worked, its officials says, to improve and repair Harvard's properties and at the same time to raise rents so that, in the words of president Sally Zeckhauser, it can attempt to win "a fair return on the University's investment...