Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After hearing dozens of complaints from victimized tenants, the students decided that existing law gave little protection from landlords who refused to repair tenements. They drafted a remedial bill and lobbied it through the state legislature. Now Michigan tenants have more legal ammunition in disputes with owners...
...touches by Aldo Gucci, Italy's famed designer of leather accessories. Instead of new body styling, or the wide variety of models offered by its competitors, A.M.C. is making its major move in the area of warranties. Starting with the 1972 models, the company will pay for the repair of all defects during the first twelve months or 12,000 miles of use-an improvement on the usual tightly restricted list of warranty-covered parts. A.M.C. even promises to lend its customers cars while their own autos are being worked...
...lowering of auto insurance rates since World War II, or at least a leveling off. Among companies that are considering or have already announced selective cuts are the Insurance Co. of North America, Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and Illinois' Kemper Group. Despite the steady rise in medical and repair costs-which have not even reversed the trend toward higher rates in some states-a number of companies have lately experienced a notable drop in the frequency of claims. Officials of State Farm, which insures one out of every seven U.S. cars, report that claims during the first six months...
...summertime entertainment, the popular novel retains certain distinct advantages over even the most portable television set. The book is easy to operate and almost never needs repair. It functions at all altitudes and particularly well at sea level, where sand, salt air and suntan lotions have no adverse effects on its performance. These two suitable-for-summer novels are brisk, undemanding and unoffensive, except possibly to cautious Washington bureaucrats, Chinese Communists, members of the Italian-American Civil Rights League or Hungarians overly sensitive to the revolving-door joke (they go in behind you, but come out in front...
...soon as he arrived, early last year, he went to the police. But no fugitive warrant had been served for him, and he was not held. Stiggers quickly started putting himself together, earned a diploma in auto repair at a community college, and worked as a busboy, dishwasher, mechanic and carpenter. Then, almost a year later, the Arkansas fugitive warrant arrived and he was arrested...