Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prime target of the Communist invasion. So far, the North Vietnamese have been unable to slip past Bastogne and Birmingham, the ARVN 1st Division bases that guard the approaches to the city. Last week, Hué had a besieged look, nonetheless. No effort had been made to repair the walls and shrines that had been reduced to ruins four years earlier-the traditional period of mourning in Viet Nam-in the Tet offensive of 1968. At the university, faded signs on walls urged: SMASH THE ATTEMPT TO VIET-NAMIZE THE WAR. The students were out in the streets, canvassing...
...warnings about a carbon monoxide leak in Chevrolet bodies and had transferred him to other tasks. When Nader and Gregory publicized the defect, G.M. in 1969 had to recall 3,000,000 cars. G.M. not only gave Gregory a $10,000 savings bond for the suggestion that helped repair the defect, but he was reinstated in his old job, and has since pointed out other defects that have led to the recall of about 4,000,000 more cars...
...really hold. The indictments claim that in some cases Dun & Bradstreet would verify this baseless credit rating. FHA would agree to stand behind the mortgage, and Eastern Service would lend the buyer the money. The buyer would then often discover that the house was badly in need of repair, or that the mortgage payments were higher than he expected...
...young lawyers, trying to serve a subpoena on a TV-repair store owner, thought it would be a lark to slip into their recalcitrant quarry's headquarters and surprise him. But when they got inside, one of them was elbowed in the stomach, and an ominous-looking man said to his boss, "If they gave that paper to me, I'd just put a bullet in em." The attorneys barely managed to talk their...
...local level, the movement flourishes in eclectic profusion. Los Angeles boasts 100 women's groups working on issues as broad as hiring practices and as narrow as do-it-herself auto-repair classes. Washington, D.C., has women's lobbies on Capitol Hill and in other parts of the federal bureaucracy. In New York City and other major urban areas, women's health clinics offer counseling, referral and care free of charge or at nominal fees. Self-help medical techniques, including pelvic examinations and Pap smears to detect uterine cancer, are being devised; male chauvinism, feminists argue...