Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retiring the old-fashioned bagged-powder firing system. Refitting the ships with 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles apiece, as the Navy once proposed, would cost more than $1 billion a vessel, an unlikely expenditure at a time of shrinking Pentagon budgets. But if the damage to the Iowa is beyond repair, the Navy may have no choice but to replace the burned- out turret with a cruise-missile loader -- or retire the old battlewagon once...
...even as NWA geared up for battle, the appearance of unity began to fade. Minnesota Democrat James Oberstar, chairman of the House aviation subcommittee, met with Davis last week and later said the billionaire's promise to build a major airline-repair center in Minnesota makes the bid "a very attractive offer." But Davis will need all his charm and cash to persuade the defiant Northwesterners...
...historic building that houses the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies and the creative writing department will undergo construction this spring to repair a sagging roof and wall, the construction project manager said yesterday...
...greatest needs of student organizations today is for adequate, centrally located office space. Current student office space, when available, is almost always in basements, is spread out over the whole campus, is in a poor state of repair, is inaccessible to disabled students and in some cases cannot even be used after midnight. Having offices in a central location, close to meeting space and close to other student groups, would strengthen Harvard/Radcliffe extracurricular life incalculably...
...university presidents defend the system, but many of them feel it is not beyond repair. "All we have to do is find the wit and will to get it done," says University of Miami President Edward Foote. In recent months, coaches and school administrators have debated the NCAA's Proposition 42, a plan that would raise the eligibility standards for athletic scholarships. Both sides of the argument claimed to speak for the disadvantaged. Some who opposed higher standardized-test scores tried to limit debate by labeling as racist or elitist those who favored such a change. But the focus...