Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quit their jobs and join the campaign. Fund raisers drew up financial timetables. ceos called, urging Powell to run. Congressmen pledged their silent support; some sitting Democratic lawmakers quietly pushed Powell to jump into the race, even as a Republican, because the Democratic Party, they said, was beyond repair. Governors indicated they were ready to endorse. Duberstein's rabbi pulled him aside before service one Saturday morning in September and asked, "Is he going...
...impressed. "These communists used to be ideological crusaders," said Andreas. "But the communists of 1995 are managers of businesses. Fidel talked like the general manager of AT&T. Even his language is that of a businessman. He was talking about his working capital requirements, his depreciation problems, his repair problems...
Robin and Dominguez live in Seattle on only $13,000 a year, honoring some of the precepts in Your Money (repair your own car, shop at garage sales), while ignoring others (sell your house and live in a motor home, eat beans). They have put the profits they have netted into a charitable foundation. "We're delighted by the commercial success," says Robin, "but people have been hounding us for money. We want to give it out, but at our discretion...
...they are. The homeless remind us of the inequity of the world in which we live. They are nothing less than a moral imperative, commanding us to repair the world by their very existence. But sometimes, we do not want to be bothered. So we hurry past, ignoring them, resenting them for reminding us of the injustice that we know we must correct...
University officials said yesterday they estimate the damage caused by the fire Tuesday evening at a Harvard office building on Story St. will cost about $50,000 to repair...