Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end relations between the press and the government had deteriorated beyond repair. Several Western reporters were accused of being CIA agents because they tried to take pictures of a burned-out Somali tank near the front, and two photographers were detained for three hours for taking pictures of bodies on the streets. A group of American journalists was even denied permission to attend a U.S. embassy reception, prompting an official American protest to the Ethiopian foreign ministry. The tour ended with a canned press conference at which Mengistu answered questions which had been submitted by the correspondents...
Your cartoon with "Hoover's Home Improvements" [Jan. 23] made me realize why J. Edgar Hoover had FBI men do his repair work. Since bugs or bombs could have easily been planted by repairmen, wasn't it safer and more economical for loyal employees to do the work? An alternative would have been to hire outside help and assign a loyal agent to watch each repairman...
...much a part of the home as the kitchen sink; it will program washing machines, burglar and fire alarms, sewing machines, a robot vacuum cleaner and a machine that will rinse and stack dirty dishes. When something goes wrong with an appliance, a question to the computer will elicit repair instructions ?in future generations, repairs will be made automatically. Energy costs will be cut by a computerized device that will direct heat to living areas where it is needed, and turn it down where it is not; the device's ubiquitous eye, sensing where people are at all times...
Along with all the diversions, Camp David also provides?at the bottom of an elevator shaft sunk 100 ft. into the mountain?a fortress where the President could repair in time of war. Even in peaceful times, security is tight. Rifle-bearing Marines keep watch behind a double row of barbed-wire-topped fences...
...department will select ten to 15 firms, probably auto-repair services, and subsidize their purchase of electric cars. Over the next three years, these companies will buy 2,500 electrics and possibly some hybrids (which switch over to gasoline engines for high-speed, long-distance driving). The cars should cost from $3,000 to $7,000, of which the Government will pay perhaps $1,000. The selected firms?there are already 49 applicants ?will sell or lease the cars to the public at discount prices. Drivers will register their impressions with the dealers, who will service the cars...