Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the original settlers, including Dudley, remained, and operated a local government--the first town records include a stern warning to citizens to keep their property in "good and sufficient repair." It also lists Cambridge's first criminals--Knox, of Watertowne, who apparently cut lumber in the town, and Goodman Kinsbury, also of Watertowne, for "encroaching the bounds of this town...
Habits of Repair...
...believe unflappably in Anderson's conviction and in his goals, how can he write about John Anderson's "lack of a clear vision for the people of the nation"? What Toobin's editorial signifies is one disenchanted liberal's self-indulgent attempt at journalism. But let me try to repair the damage done by Toobin's opus...
Unfortunately, Poland's economic problems seem to be well beyond the power of workers or government to repair in the near future. They are the result of 33 years of Communist bungling and a decade of misfortune and miscalculation by Gierek's government. He had inherited a chaotic agricultural system and an inefficient industrial base that produced chronic shortages of foodstuffs and consumer goods. His solution was a rapid modernization of industry that was intended to produce hard-currency-earning exports and enable the government to import more food and goods from the West...
...spending less, the town's economy is slowing down. Shops have laid off 600 employees, reducing the retail work force to 6,000. "We aren't selling much jewelry right now," admits Sue Emmanuel, the manager of the Fox Jewelry Store. "But we are doing lots of repair work." The manager of a big department store chain explains that the unemployed browse and sometimes buy because "it people them feel better to buy something, if only a $2.98 blouse...